Yuzhou

See also: yúzhōu, Yǔzhōu, and yǔzhòu

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 禹州 (Yǔzhōu).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yüʹjōʹ

Proper noun

Yuzhou

1. A county-level city in Xuchang, Henan, China.
   • [1914, Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries‎^[1], New York: Japan Society, →OCLC, page 18:

     JU-CHOU is in the province of Honan, in the valley of the Ju River, some fifty miles west of the Ching-Han Railway line and to the southeast of Honan Fu. It is in the same general keramic district as Yü-chou, where the famous Sung Chün wares were made.]

   • 2022 January 4, Austin Ramzy, John Yoon, Karan Singh, “Hong Kong expands its vaccine requirements as it fights to control Omicron.”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-04, Global Roundup‎^[3]:

     China ordered the nearly 1.2 million residents of the city of Yuzhou in Henan Province to stay home after three asymptomatic cases of the virus were discovered in recent days.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禹州 (zh) (Yǔzhōu)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yuzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3543, column 2