Xuzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 徐州 (Xúzhōu), from a former prefecture administered from the city.

• (from Wade–Giles) Hsu-chou, Hsü-chou
• Suchow, Süchow

Xuzhou

1. A prefecture-level city in northwestern Jiangsu, China.
   • [1980, Perry, Elizabeth J., Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945‎, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 25:

     T’ung-shan County in the Hsüchou district of Kiangsu was apparently famous for nonglutenous rice during the Han and Northern Wei dynasties (third century B.C. to third century A.D.).]

• Tongshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 敘州／叙州 (Xùzhōu), from a former prefecture administered from the city.

• (obsolete): Suifu, Suifoo, Suchow

Xuzhou

1. (historical) A former name of Yibin, a prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China, at the confluence of the Min and Yangtze rivers.