Zunyi
See also: Zūnyì
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Tsun-i
- Tsunyi
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 遵義／遵义 (Zūnyì).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌ(d)zuːnˈjiː/
Proper noun
Zunyi
- A prefecture-level city in Guizhou, China.
- [1940, Lin, Yüeh-hwa, “The Miao-Man Peoples of Kweichow”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, volume 5, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-Yenching Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 264-265:
- The next year, a certain bandit chieftain Yang Lung-hsi 陽隆喜 plundered the districts of T‘ung-tzü 桐梓 and Jên-huai 仁懷 and encircled the prefecture of Tsun-i 遵義.[...]
The emperor also approved a request by the people of Tsun-i, Kweichow, for permission to establish a memorial temple.]
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Further reading
- Zunyi in Encyclopædia Britannica
- Zunyi at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zunyi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3576, column 1
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