Wuzhai

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 五寨 (Wǔzhài).

Proper noun

Wuzhai

1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
   • [1952 March, Franklin J. Crider, Natob—A New Bush Lespedeza For Soil Conservation‎^[1], number 900, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 2:

     This specimen (No. 2040) bears a notation to the effect that the actual collection was made by a Chinese railroad inspector, Tchuang Kieh. in September 1922 at Wu Chai Hsien, Shansi Province, China, at an elevation of 6,000 to 9,000 feet. The specimen was identified as a form of Lespedeza bicolor in 1926 by A. K. Schindler.]

   • 1979 January, Rewi Alley, “Yanbei and Xinxian Prefectures in 1978”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 1, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 1:

     On leaving Shenchi, the way lay up a wide valley, on a good road. Then we took to the hills in Wuzhai (Wuchai) county, winding amongst mountain ridges, until we came to Hequ (Hochu) county, where there were more mountains, wild serrated loess country, but everywhere trees and then more trees.

   • 2000, Aiping Mu, “The East is Red: Hard Times for New Arrivals (1946-1951)”, in Vermilion Gate‎^[2], Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:

     In Wuzhai, a county in north-west Shanxi, they found the Communist prefectural government, and after two weeks’ rest in an army service station my mother was assigned to the town of Wuzhai, with responsibility for training local Party officials.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五寨 (zh) (Wǔzhài)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuzhai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 2
• Wuzhai, Wu-chai, Wuchai at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.