Shangqiu

English

Alternative forms

• Shang-ch'iu (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 商丘／商邱 (Shāngqiū).

Proper noun

Shangqiu

1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
   • [1977, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly Supplement‎^[2], →OCLC, page 7:

     Some 16,000,000 people live on the great plain of eastern Honan, an area of nearly 30,000,000 mou comprising Shangchiu and Choukou Prefectures and the eastern part of Kaifeng Prefecture.]

   • 2010 May 12, Edward Wong, “China: Confession Obtained by Torture”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-05-16, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     Officials in the city of Shangqiu in Henan Province have admitted that police officers tortured a man to get him to falsely confess to a murder that he did not commit, official Chinese news organizations reported Wednesday.

Translations

city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 商丘 (zh) (Shāngqiū), 商邱 (Shāngqiū)

• Marathi: शांगछिऊ (śāṅgchiū)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Shangkiu or Shang-chiu^{[sic – meaning Shang-ch'iu]}”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1743, column 3

Anagrams

• quashing