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Ch'in-chou

Ch'in-chou is the alternative spelling of Qinzhou.

Meaning of Qinzhou

Proper noun (1)

Qinzhou

  1. A district in modern Tianshui, Gansu, China.
    • Qincheng (now called Qinzhou) District Court, in Gansu Province's Tianshui City, in Northwestern China, also saw high numbers of counterrevolutionary trials during the early 1950s.2018, William Hurst, “Law and Revolution: Mobilizational Justice and Charismatic Politics”, in Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia (Cambridge Studies in Law...

Proper noun (2)

Qinzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
    • A businessman in the southwestern region of Guangxi has pleaded guilty to charges of killing and eating at least three tigers last year, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
      Prosecutors in the city of Qinzhou said the defendant, identified only as Mr. Xu, “has a quirky appetite for eating...2014 June 13, Shaojie Huang, “Businessman Guilty of Killing and Eating Tigers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2022, Sinosphere

Origin of Ch'in-chou

From Mandarin 秦州 (Qínzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻin²-chou¹.

Questions about Ch'in-chou

What is Ch'in-chou the alternative spelling of?
Ch'in-chou is the alternative spelling of Qinzhou.

Words near Ch'in-chou in the dictionary

  1. ch'ih
  2. Ch'ih-pi
  3. ch'ihs
  4. ch'ill
  5. Ch'in
  6. Ch'in-chou
  7. Ch'in-huang-tao
  8. Ch'ing
  9. Ch'ing Ming
  10. Ch'ing-chiang-p'u
  11. Ch'ing-hai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ch'in-chou (page history and authors); Qinzhou (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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