Longzhou

See also: lóngzhōu, and Lóngzhōu

English

Alternative forms

• Lungchow (dated)
• Lung-chou (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 龍州／龙州 (Lóngzhōu).

Proper noun

Longzhou

1. A county of Chongzuo, Guangxi, China.
   • [1982, Roy M. Stanley II, “The Land War in China”, in Prelude to Pearl Harbor‎^[1], New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124, column 1:

     Building up strength, the Japanese went on the offensive again on 12 March 1940. This time they attacked west toward Lungchou near the French Indochina border to threaten a flank attack on Chinese positions. Lungchou fell to Japanese troops on 2 July 1940, but a Chinese counterattack drove the Japanese back. Lungchou was in Chinese hands again on 28 October, and Nanning, on the 29th.]

Translations

county in Guangxi, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 龍州／龙州 (lung⁴ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 龍州／龙州 (zh) (Lóngzhōu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Longzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[2], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1777, column 2