Tan-chou

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 儋州 (Dānzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-chou¹.

Proper noun

Tan-chou

1. Alternative form of Danzhou
   • 1909, G. E. Gerini, Researches on Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Asia (Further India and Indo-Malay Archipelago) (Asiatic Society Monographs)‎^[1], number 1, London: Royal Geographical Society, →OCLC, page 250:

     Tan-êrh, now Tan-chou (West Hainan), may well represent the Sandar, or Zandar, or Sender of the Arabs; […]

   • 1965, Burton Watson, transl., Su Tung-p'o: Selections from a Sung Dynasty Poet‎^[2], University of Columbia Press, →OCLC, page 130:

     The year before, the poet had been ordered to leave Hui-chou, where he had just settled down in his new house, and proceed to Tan-chou on the west side of Hainan Island in the South China Sea.

   • 1994, Beata Grant, Mount Lu Revisited‎^[3], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:

     He left his remaining family in Hui-chou and proceeded to Tan-chou in Hai-nan accompanied only by his son Su Kuo.

Translations

Danzhou — see Danzhou

Anagrams

• Huncoat