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Chuanchou

Chuanchou is the alternative form of Quanzhou.

Meaning of Quanzhou

Proper noun (1)

Quanzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city in southeastern Fujian, China.
    • Between 1946 and 1948 in the ruins of the foundations of Quanzhou’s South Gate Tower and southern wall we excavated more that twenty large white gravestones, inscribed in Arabic on both sides. They obviously had been taken from a demolished Islamic mosque. The area overlooked in the Jin River and...1984, Zhuang Weiji, quotee, Jews in Old China: Studies by Chinese Scholars, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 147
    Synonyms:
    Zeitoun, Zaitun, Zayton, Zaytun, Zaytoun, Zeytoun, Chinchew, Chinchu, Chin-chiu, Chuanchiu

Proper noun (2)

Quanzhou

  1. A county in Guilin, Guangxi, China.

Origin of Chuanchou

From Mandarin 泉州 (Quánzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻüan²-chou¹.

Questions about Chuanchou

What is Chuanchou the alternative form of?
Chuanchou is the alternative form of Quanzhou.

Words near Chuanchou in the dictionary

  1. Chua
  2. Chuadanga District
  3. Chuahit
  4. Chualar
  5. Chuana
  6. Chuanchou
  7. Chuanchow
  8. Chuang
  9. Chuangs
  10. Chuanhui
  11. Chuanqiandian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chuanchou (page history and authors); Quanzhou (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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