Luopu

English

Alternative forms

• Lo-p'u (Wade–Giles)
• Lohpu

Etymology

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洛浦 (Luòpǔ).

Proper noun

Luopu

1. Synonym of Lop: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 2011 November 4, “Rawak Temple Ruins for Buddhist history”, in Beijing Today‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20:

     Rawak Temple Ruins, located in the Taklamakan Desert in northwest Luopu County in Hotan, was once a representative Buddhist temple in the Khotan Kingdom.

   • 2019, “(Multimedia) Brass band brings new rhythm to rural Xinjiang”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[2]:

     "The brass band I've seen on TV is coming," says Arzigul Xelil, a villager from Luopu County in Hotan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

   • 2019, Lily Kuo, “‘If you enter a camp, you never come out’: inside China’s war on Islam”, in Taipei Times‎^[3]:

     A starkly different reality emerges in Luopu, also known as Lop County, where interviews with current and former residents, and analysis of public documents revealed new details about the government’s continuing campaign in one of the worst-affected areas of Xinjiang.

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

Translations

county in Hotan, Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洛浦 (zh) (Luòpǔ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Upolu