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Chao-t'ung

Chao-t'ung is the alternative form of Zhaotong.

Meaning of Zhaotong

Proper noun

Zhaotong

  1. A prefecture-level city of Yunnan, China.
    • Military chieftains of three Communist "military regions" (Chengtu, Kunming and Canton) and five provincial “military districts” (Szechwon^([sic – meaning Szechwan]), Tibet, Yunnan, Kweichow and Kwangsi) held a joint conference last September in Chaotung, Yunnan, to discuss measures to be taken...[1977 November 27, “Guerrilla activities”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 47, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4

Origin of Chao-t'ung

From Mandarin 昭通 (Zhāotōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chao¹-tʻung¹.

Questions about Chao-t'ung

What is Chao-t'ung the alternative form of?
Chao-t'ung is the alternative form of Zhaotong.

Words near Chao-t'ung in the dictionary

  1. chao tar
  2. chao tom
  3. Chao'an
  4. chao-
  5. Chao-ch'ing
  6. Chao-t'ung
  7. Chaoba
  8. Chaobi
  9. chaoborid
  10. chaoborids
  11. chaoborine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chao-t'ung (page history and authors); Zhaotong (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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