Wu-chou

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 梧州 (Wúzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Wu²-chou¹.

Proper noun

Wu-chou

1. Alternative form of Wuzhou
   • 1973, Gilbert Rozman, Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan‎^[1], Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 244:

     An even longer river which flowed through Wu-chou to Canton was the Pearl. One level 3b city, Nan-ning fu, and two level 4 cities, Hsün-chou fu and Kuei hsien, served as ports en route to Wu-chou. The other level 3b city, Liu-chou fu, was located on a tributary of the Pearl river in an area from which lumber was sent to Kwangtung. Together with rice from Hsün-chou fu and Nan-ning fu, lumber and other products from the mountains sailed downriver to Wu-chou.

   • 1982, Albert Chan, “After the Fall of Peking”, in The Glory and Fall of the Ming Dynasty‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 371:

     The Yung-li ruler, finding Chao-ch’ing insecure, fled to Wu-chou (梧州), Kuangsi province, and then to Kuei-lin, vigorously pursued by the Manchu army.

Translations

Wuzhou — see Wuzhou

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wu-chou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 1
• “Wu-chou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.