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Bachu

Syllables: Ba·chu

Bachu proper noun: synonym of Maralbexi: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Proper noun

Bachu

  1. Synonym of Maralbexi: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • Comrade (Wu-pu-lien-shan), who came from a poor Uighur peasant family, was a militiaman of the 2nd production brigade of Tungfanghung commune in Pachu County, Sinkiang.[1971 February 5 [1971 January 18], “Sinkiang Militiaman”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 25, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional...
    • Farmhouses and schools collapsed and dormitories crumbled when the temblor, which registered 6.8 on the Richter scale, hit the western part of Xinjiang province, near China's mountainous border with Kyrgyzstan, on Monday morning.
      In one village in Bachu County, more than 1,000 buildings and houses...2003 February 24, John Pomfret, “Quake Kills More Than 250 in Western China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2024
    Synonyms:
    Maralbexi

Examples of Bachu in a sentence

  • Calls to the authorities in Kashgar, about 100 miles from the police station, and in the nearby town of Bachu were not answered.2013 November 17, Jane Perlez, “9 Attackers and 2 Officers Reported Killed in Tense Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  • The garment factory employs residents who mostly hail from Maralbeshi, or Bachu in Chinese, in Kashgar province, the largest cotton-producing county in Xinjiang.2023 July 15, Shohret Hoshur, Mary Zhao, “Facing abuse, teenage Uyghur girls are forced to work in a Xinjiang garment factory”, in Uyghur...

Synonyms of Bachu

Forms of Bachu

alternative formPa-ch'u

Origin of Bachu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 巴楚 (Bāchǔ).

Questions about Bachu

What does Bachu mean?
Bachu means synonym of Maralbexi: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
How do you use Bachu in a sentence?
Calls to the authorities in Kashgar, about 100 miles from the police station, and in the nearby town of Bachu were not answered.
What part of speech is Bachu?
Bachu is a proper noun.

Words near Bachu in the dictionary

  1. Bachran
  2. bachs
  3. bachshish
  4. Bachtel
  5. Bachtels
  6. Bachu
  7. bachur
  8. bachurim
  9. Bachus
  10. Baci
  11. Bacigalupo

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