Tzu-chou

English

Map including Tzu-chou (Shuang-hu-yü) (middle left) (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 子洲 (Zǐzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ³-chou¹.

Proper noun

Tzu-chou

1. Alternative form of Zizhou
   • 1967, Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[1], →OCLC, page 343:

     These four small regions of Chiu-yuan-kou, Hsin-chan-kou, Wang-chia-kou, and She-chia-kou, in the loess hill district in the northern part of Shensi are located respectively in Sui-te Hsien and Tzu-chou Hsien in Shensi Province.

   • 1978, Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[2], numbers 439-447, →OCLC, page 122:

     Figure 7 depicts a composite of four profiles of the same slope taken from the middle reaches of the Ch'a-pa Gully in Tzu-chou County of Shensi Province.

   • 1991, Thomas Lawton, A Time of Transition: Two Collectors of Chinese Art‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:

     According to one published account, said to be based on information provided by foreign missionaries in Chungking, whose reaction may have been influenced by the excesses of the Boxer Rebellion just a few years earlier, Tuan-fang was killed by his own soldiers at Tzu-chou, Shensi province.

Translations

Zizhou — see Zizhou