Huzhou
English
Map including HUZHOU (DMA, 1996)
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Hu-chou
- Huchow
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 湖州 (Húzhōu).
Proper noun
Huzhou
- A prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China.
- [1914, Backhouse, E.; J. O. P. Bland, “Hsien Feng and T’ung Chih: The Facile Descent”, in Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (From the 16th to the 20th Century), Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 425:
- Li begged them not to betray him. "If you can find a way of taking me safely to Huchou in Chekiang, I will give you 30,000 taels."]
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1340, column 1
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