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Gejiu

Syllables: Ge·jiu

Gejiu proper noun: a county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.

Proper noun

Gejiu

  1. A county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.
    • The Ko-chiu area in Yunnan is still the backbone of the Chinese tin industry, as it supplies about two-thirds of China's total output.[1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 97
    • According to French Consul François, the governor-general and other leading officials personally attended the drill practices close to Yunnanfu. Five prefectures succeeded in organizing t’uan-lien, which paraded and drilled before dawn and before dusk in the villages.¹⁸ In the winter of 1903-4 an...[1980, Donald S. Sutton, Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army, 1905–25 (Michigan Studies on China), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 56–57

Forms of Gejiu

alternative formKo-chiu
alternative form (dated)Kochiu

Origin of Gejiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 箇舊 /个旧 (Gèjiù).

Questions about Gejiu

What does Gejiu mean?
Gejiu means a county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.
What part of speech is Gejiu?
Gejiu is a proper noun.

Words near Gejiu in the dictionary

  1. geitost
  2. gejang
  3. Gejeian
  4. Gejeians
  5. Gejia
  6. Gejiu
  7. gejje
  8. gekiga
  9. gekker
  10. gekkered
  11. gekkering

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