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Choukoutien

Choukoutien 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

Questions about Choukoutien

What is Choukoutien the alternative form of?
Choukoutien is the alternative form of Zhoukoudian.

Words near Choukoutien in the dictionary

  1. chough
  2. choughs
  3. Chouinard
  4. chouka
  5. choukas
  6. Choukoutien
  7. Choul
  8. choulteries
  9. choultery
  10. choultries
  11. choultry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Choukoutien (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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