Pa-ch'u

See also: pachu and Pachu

English

Map including PA-CH'U (MARAL BASHI) (ATC, 1971)

Etymology

From Mandarin 巴楚 (Bāchǔ), Wade–Giles romanization: Pa¹-chʻu³.

Proper noun

Pa-ch'u

1. Alternative form of Bachu (Maralbexi)
   • 1946, Military Information: Sinkiang Rebellions 1931-1937‎^[1], CIA Document Number: CIA-RDP82-00457R000100660009-3, page 6:

     Timur captured Pa-ch'u. Commander Yang was wounded and captured, and his troops were routed to Kashgar.

   • 1944, Martin R. Norins, Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West‎^[2], John Day Company, →OCLC, page 109:

     Flourishing cotton fields abound also at So-ch'e, Maralbashi (Pa-ch'u), Shan-shan, Su-lo, and Korla.

   • 1987, Arthur C. Hasiotis, Jr., Soviet Political, Economic, and Military Involvement in Sinkiang from 1928 to 1949‎^[3], Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 102–103:

     In September of 1937, two regiments of Soviet Kirghiz troops and one regiment of Russian troops equipped with forty airplanes and twenty tanks entered Sinkiang from Atushe and attacked Pa-ch'u, dividing Ma Hu-shan's 36th Corps into two sections. In October one Kirghiz regiment entered P'i-shan, and Ma Hu-shan fled to India. Kirghiz and Russian forces were now in occupation of Hami and poised to strike at Ho-t'ien in the extreme south of Sinkiang.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pa-ch'u.

Translations

Bachu — see Bachu

Anagrams

• Cha-pu, Chapu, chupa