Wuzhai

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 五寨 (Wǔzhài).

Proper noun

Wuzhai

1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
   • [1952 March, Franklin J. Crider, Natob—A New Bush Lespedeza For Soil Conservation‎^[1], number 900, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 2:

     This specimen (No. 2040) bears a notation to the effect that the actual collection was made by a Chinese railroad inspector, Tchuang Kieh. in September 1922 at Wu Chai Hsien, Shansi Province, China, at an elevation of 6,000 to 9,000 feet. The specimen was identified as a form of Lespedeza bicolor in 1926 by A. K. Schindler.]

   • 2000, Aiping Mu, “The East is Red: Hard Times for New Arrivals (1946-1951)”, in Vermilion Gate‎^[2], Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:

     In Wuzhai, a county in north-west Shanxi, they found the Communist prefectural government, and after two weeks’ rest in an army service station my mother was assigned to the town of Wuzhai, with responsibility for training local Party officials.

   • 2020 December 2, Ruisheng Sun, Wang Xiaodong, “TCM herb growth cures farmers' poverty woes”, in China Daily‎^[3], archived from the original on 05 August 2022‎^[4]:

     Zhang Youwen, a 60-year-old farmer in Wuzhai county, Shanxi province, used to grow potatoes and corn on his small patch of land, just as his parents and grandparents had done.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五寨 (zh) (Wǔzhài)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuzhai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 2
• Wuzhai, Wu-chai, Wuchai at Google Ngram Viewer