Zunyi

See also: Zūnyì

English

Alternative forms

• Tsun-i (Wade–Giles)
• Tsunyi

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 遵義／遵义 (Zūnyì).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌ(d)zuːnˈjiː/, enPR: dzo͝onʹyēʹ, dzo͞oʹnēʹ

Proper noun

Zunyi

1. A prefecture-level city in Guizhou, China.
   • [1940, Yüeh-hwa Lin, “The Miao-Man Peoples of Kweichow”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies‎^[3], volume 5, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-Yenching Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 264–265:

     The next year, a certain bandit chieftain Yang Lung-hsi 陽隆喜 plundered the districts of T‘ung-tzü 桐梓 and Jên-huai 仁懷 and encircled the prefecture of Tsun-i 遵義.[...]
     The emperor also approved a request by the people of Tsun-i, Kweichow, for permission to establish a memorial temple.]

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遵義／遵义 (zh) (Zūnyì)

Further reading

• Zunyi in Encyclopædia Britannica
• “Zunyi”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zunyi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3576, column 1