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Chiao-tso

Chiao-tso is the alternative form of Jiaozuo.

Meaning of Jiaozuo

Proper noun

Jiaozuo

  1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
    • Work on the new railroad that thrust its way up onto the Shangtang: Plateau from the old railhead at the huge coalmine of Chiaotso in the Yellow River Valley went on for three years.[1983, William Hinton, “Two Dams and a Railroad”, in Shenfan, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 226

Origin of Chiao-tso

From Mandarin 焦作 (Jiāozuò) Wade–Giles romanization: Chiao¹-tso⁴.

Questions about Chiao-tso

What is Chiao-tso the alternative form of?
Chiao-tso is the alternative form of Jiaozuo.

Words near Chiao-tso in the dictionary

  1. chiantis
  2. Chiantishire
  3. chianuri
  4. chianuris
  5. chiao
  6. Chiao-tso
  7. chiao-tze
  8. Chiaohsi
  9. Chiaos
  10. Chiaotou
  11. chiaous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chiao-tso (page history and authors); Jiaozuo (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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