Quzhou

See also: qūzhóu, Qúzhōu, and Qǔzhōu

English

Map including QUZHOU (NIMA, 1996)

Alternative forms

• Ch'ü-chou (Wade–Giles)
• Chuchow

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 衢州 (Qúzhōu).

Proper noun

Quzhou

1. A prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China.
   • 2013 July 9, “Pilot of crashed Asiana plane still in Boeing 777 training”, in France 24‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 July 2013‎^[2]:

     The two dead girls, Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, were friends from the Jiangshan Middle School in Quzhou, in the prosperous eastern coastal province of Zhejiang.

   • 2021 June 27, Kristin Huang, “Chinese Hui Muslims trigger storm by wearing traditional dress to event to promote ethnic unity”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on June 27, 2021, Politics‎^[4]:

     The Go tournament – a traditional Chinese board game also known as Weiqi – in Quzhou, a city in Zhejiang province, was designed to promote “participation and communication” among the members of China’s 56 designated ethnic minority groups.

Translations

prefecture-level city in China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 衢州 (keoi⁴ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 衢州 (zh) (Qúzhōu)

Further reading

• Quzhou at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Quzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2559, column 3