K'u-ch'e

See also: kuche, Kuche, and Küche

English

Map including K'U-CH'E (KUCHA) (AMS, 1950)

Etymology

From Mandarin 庫車／库车 (Kùchē), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻu⁴-chʻe¹.

Proper noun

K'u-ch'e

1. Alternative form of Kuche (Kuqa)
   • 1944, Martin R. Norins, Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West‎^[1], John Day Company, →OCLC, page 112:

     A so-called "Ferghana Series" of oil-bearing strata runs into Kashgaria from Russian Turkestan and extends along the foot of the T'ien Shan past Aqsu to Kucha (K'u-ch'e). What may be an extension of this same series reappears again in the region of the Sinkiang North Road.

   • 1972, T'ung-tsu Ch'ü, Han Dynasty China‎^[2], volume I, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 378:

     Chiu-tzu 龜茲 is now the city of K’u-ch’e, situated at the confluence of the Muzart River and the K’u-ch’e River at the foot of the Tien Shan.

   • 1974, D. J. Dwyer, China Now‎^[3], DLongman Group Ltd, →ISBN, page 274:

     Responsibility for this control was in the hands of the Hsi-an Military Governor situated at what was called Chiu-tzu, the present-day K'u-ch'e (Kucha) in the southern piedmont of the T'ien Shan southwest of Urumchi.

Translations

Kuche — see Kuche

Anagrams

• Hucke