Liuchow

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin 柳州 (Liǔzhōu).

Proper noun

Liuchow

1. Dated form of Liuzhou.
   • 1945, Mark Tennien, “Wuchow to Chungking”, in Chungking Listening Post‎^[1], New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., page 6:

     After three days the boat brought us to Liuchow, the end of waterway traffic. From there on, it was train and truck travel. With rails salvaged ahead of the Japanese advances into North China a new line had been laid from Liuchow more than two hundred miles in the direction of Chungking.

   • 1953, Herbert Feis, The China Tangle: The American Effort in China from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission‎^[2], Princeton University Press, page 166:

     During this summer of 1944 the Japanese pushed on with dogged purpose. They were coming toward the American air bases at Liuchow and Kweilin. Should they get that far, the whole American combat air effort in China would be marked down to little. From there, the Japanese troops would be able, unless Chinese forces not then in sight were brought against them, to press on either to Kunming or Chungking or both.

   • 1969, King C. Chen, Vietnam and China, 1938-1954‎^[3], Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 46:

     With sympathy and support, Chang decided to receive and train the Vietnamese revolutionists. He first received a unit of the Phu Quoc army led by Hoang Luong and Nong Kinh Du. The French authorities asked Chang to return the men. Chang rejected the request and later set up a Vietnam Special Training Class in Liuchow for them. Then he sent Truong Boi Cong to Chinghsi (about 600 miles from Liuchow and 65 miles from Vietnam) to organize a border work team for enlisting other political refugees.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Liuchow.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Liuchow

1. Misspelling of Luichow.
   • 1955, “HAINAN”, in The Universal Standard Encyclopedia, volume 11, Funk & Wagnalls Unicorn Yearbook Service, →OCLC, page 4104:

     HAINAN, an island of Kwangtung Province, China, situated in the South China Sea due s. of the Liuchow peninsula. Hainan Strait, about 15 m. in width, separates the peninsula from the island, which adjoins the Gulf of Tonkin on the E.

Further reading

• “Liuchow, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Luichow