Zhouzhi

See also: zhōuzhī and Zhōuzhì

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: jōʹjûʹ

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 周至 (Zhōuzhì).

Proper noun

Zhouzhi

1. A county of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1976, Leslie T. C. Kuo, Agriculture in the People's Republic of China: Structural Changes and Technical Transformation‎^[2], Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 50:

     Although data on state farms in recent years are sketchy, their general situation and problems appear to be essentially the same as they were in the 1950s and the 1960s. At a provincewide symposium of state-owned agricultural and animal husbandry enterprises, convened in Chouchih, Shensi Province, in May 1975, the participants were told that although the proportion of the enterprises in the entire rural economy was "still not great," they occupied an important position in China's socialist agriculture.]

   • [1978 January 25 [1978 January 17], “Shensi Farmland Capital Construction”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 17, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 2‎^[3]:

     The Chouchih County CCP Committee has once again organized 190,000 people to go in for harnessing the Wei River.]

   • 1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian‎^[4], Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:

     The Lao River lies to the south-west of Xian within Zhouzhi and Huxian Counties.

   • 2008 November 25, Ian Ransom, “Cabbies in two Chinese cities call off strikes”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 10 April 2023, Latest Crisis‎^[6]:

     More than 100 taxi drivers who crowded a town square in Zhouzhi county, in northwestern Shaanxi province, went back to work on Tuesday after authorities promised to crack down on unlicensed cabs, the Beijing News said.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 周至 (zh) (Zhōuzhì)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 盩厔 (Zhōuzhì).

Alternative forms

• Chou-chih (Wade–Giles)

Proper noun

Zhouzhi

1. A former name for a county of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
   • 2010, Tian Yuan Tan, Songs of Contentment and Transgression: Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth-Century North China‎^[7], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105:

     This song explains that the fine climate of Zhouzhi produced admirable figures like Lanqing and Zhang Fu'ao.

Translations

former name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盩厔 (Zhōuzhì)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhouzhi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 3