Tsao-chuang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 棗莊 / 枣庄 (Zǎozhuāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsao³-chuang¹.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dzouʹjwängʹ

Proper noun

Tsao-chuang

1. Alternative form of Zaozhuang
   • 1964, “SHANTUNG”, in Encyclopædia Britannica‎^[1], volume 20, →OCLC, page 472:

     The mining development at Tsao-chuang is one of the largest and most mechanized in China.

   • 1972 December, Hsiao Wen, “China's new discoveries of ancient treasures”, in The UNESCO Courier‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:

     In 1969, two peasants from Tsao-chuang in Shantung province unearthed the official seal of Han Linerh, a leader of the Red Kerchief rebels formed in 1368 during the peasants’ revolt, before the fall of the Yuan dynasty.

   • 1986, John K. Fairbank, Albert Feuerwerker, The Cambridge History of China‎^[3], volume 13, Cambridge University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 768:

     Then in early January 1947, Communist units retreating from northern Kiangsu joined with others from central Shantung to counter-attack their pursuers at Tsao-chuang in southern Shantung.

Translations

Zaozhuang — see Zaozhuang

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsaochwang or Tsao-chuang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1951, column 3
• “Tsao-chuang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Tsao-chuang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.