Mengzhou

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孟州 (Mèngzhōu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmʌŋˈd͡ʒoʊ/

Proper noun

Mengzhou

1. A county-level city in Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
   • 1998, Chinese Education and Society‎^[1], volume 31, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:

     Jiaozuo, for instance, brought forth the proposal "to inaugurate and promote educational modernization across the board," and in the counties with which it is affiliated—such as Mengzhou and Qinyang, the "Three New Classrooms"—in micro-mechanics, electronic teaching and phonetics—are rapidly moving ahead, keeping abreast of the "Three Old Classrooms" of the library, the[...]

   • 2019, Mark Chen, Chen Style Taijiquan Collected Masterworks: The History of a Martial Art‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page [3]:

     In the period around 1925, the Wen County police department found itself unable to meet the threat posed by large gangs of armed bandits (insurrectionists, really) operating in Henan Province. One such gang, the Red Spear Society, was already in control of neighboring Bo'ai County 博愛縣 and Mengzhou City 孟洲市^{[sic – meaning 孟州市]} (Jiaozuo 焦作, Henan).

   • 2019 May 23, David Stanway, Philip Wen, Stella Qiu, “A pollution crackdown compounds slowdown woes in China's heartland”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 02 September 2023‎^[5]:

     The government of Mengzhou, which oversees Sangpo, declined to comment when reached by phone. But Mengzhou’s mayor said last year that the crackdown was necessary and in accordance with the popular will, according to a statement on the Mengzhou government website.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Mengzhou.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孟州 (zh) (Mèngzhōu)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Meng Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1950, column 3