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Chin-chou

Chin-chou is the alternative form of Jinzhou.

Chin-chou is the alternative form of Qinzhou.

Meaning of Jinzhou

Proper noun (1)

Jinzhou

  1. A district of Dalian, Liaoning, China.

Proper noun (2)

Jinzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Liaoning, China.
    • Zhao Guoli, vice director of public security for an industrial park in Jinzhou city, was shot Friday after the Supreme People’s Court upheld his death sentence, the newspapers said.1997 May 10, “Chinese police officer executed for embezzling”, in AP News, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2023

Proper noun (3)

Jinzhou

  1. A county-level city of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.
    • Bishop Jia Zhiguo was detained June 25 by officials from the religious affairs bureau in Jinzhou, a northern city in Hebei Province, said the Cardinal Kung Foundation, based in Stamford, Connecticut.2006 July 7, Keith Bradsher, “Hong Kong cardinal is a thorn to Beijing, a beacon for Vatican - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

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 Chin-chou

From Mandarin 錦州 /锦州 (Jǐnzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Chin³-chou¹.

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

Questions about Chin-chou

What is Chin-chou the alternative form of?
Chin-chou is the alternative form of Jinzhou.

Words near Chin-chou in the dictionary

  1. Chin-ch'uan
  2. chin-chin
  3. chin-chinned
  4. chin-chinning
  5. chin-chins
  6. Chin-chou
  7. Chin-chung
  8. Chin-hua
  9. Chin-men
  10. Chin-sha
  11. Chin-sha Chiang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chin-chou (page history and authors); Jinzhou (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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