Zhuozhou

See also: Zhuōzhōu

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涿州 (Zhuōzhōu).

Proper noun

Zhuozhou

1. A county-level city in Baoding, Hebei, China.
   • 2023 August 4, Keith Bradsher, Li You, Joy Dong, Claire Fu, “Anger Builds in Towns Deliberately Flooded, in Part, to Save Beijing”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-04, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     “To protect Beijing, no one cares if we in Hebei are being flooded,” a resident of a village on Zhuozhou’s outskirts complained on Friday morning, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal for criticizing the government.
     Another Zhuozhou resident stood at the edge of a field next to his partly submerged village on the city’s outskirts on Friday, waiting for lingering, thigh-deep water to subside.

   • 2023 August 5, “China hit by more floods after Typhoon Doksuri”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[3], archived from the original on 05 August 2023, China‎^[4]:

     So far, at least 22 people have died in Beijing and the surrounding Hebei province this week amid the heavy rains. State media reported Saturday that waters have started to recede in the hard-hit Hebei city of Zhuozhou.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 涿州 (zh) (Zhuōzhōu)