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Cyuanjhou

Cyuanjhou 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 Cyuanjhou

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 泉州 (Quánzhōu) Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Cyuánjhou.

Questions about Cyuanjhou

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

Words near Cyuanjhou in the dictionary

  1. cyttid
  2. cyttids
  3. cytula
  4. cytulas
  5. cyturia
  6. Cyuanjhou
  7. cywydd
  8. cywyddau
  9. Cyzican
  10. Cyzicans
  11. Cyzicene

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cyuanjhou (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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