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Chou-k'ou-tien

Chou-k'ou-tien is the alternative form of Zhoukoudian.

Meaning of Zhoukoudian

Proper noun

Zhoukoudian

  1. An area of Fangshan district, Beijing, China.
    • In the more remote past, 450 million years ago, the Choukoutien area was part of a sea as the presence there of Ordovician limestone proves.[1975, Lan-po Chia, The Cave Home of Peking Man, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 7

Origin of Chou-k'ou-tien

From Mandarin 周口店 (Zhōukǒudiàn), Wade–Giles romanization: Chou¹-kʻou³-tien⁴.

Questions about Chou-k'ou-tien

What is Chou-k'ou-tien the alternative form of?
Chou-k'ou-tien is the alternative form of Zhoukoudian.

Words near Chou-k'ou-tien in the dictionary

  1. chou chou
  2. chou moellier
  3. chou pastries
  4. chou pastry
  5. Chou-chih
  6. Chou-k'ou-tien
  7. Chou-shan
  8. Chouan
  9. Chouans
  10. Choubey
  11. Choucair

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chou-k'ou-tien (page history and authors); Zhoukoudian (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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