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Hsü-chou

Hsü-chou is the alternative form of Xuzhou.

Meaning of Xuzhou

Proper noun (1)

Xuzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city in northwestern Jiangsu, China.
    • T’ung-shan County in the Hsüchou district of Kiangsu was apparently famous for nonglutenous rice during the Han and Northern Wei dynasties (third century B.C. to third century A.D.).[1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 25
    Synonyms:
    Tongshan

Proper noun (2)

Xuzhou

  1. (historical) A former name of Yibin, a prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China, at the confluence of the Min and Yangtze rivers.
  2. A district of Yibin, Sichuan, China.

Origin of Hsü-chou

From Mandarin 徐州 (Xúzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsü²-chou¹.

Questions about Hsü-chou

What is Hsü-chou the alternative form of?
Hsü-chou is the alternative form of Xuzhou.

Words near Hsü-chou in the dictionary

  1. HSwMS
  2. hsync
  3. hsyncs
  4. Hsü
  5. Hsü-ch'ang
  6. Hsü-chou
  7. Hsüan Wu
  8. Hsüan-en
  9. Hsüan-hua
  10. Hsüan-wu
  11. Hsüanwu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsü-chou (page history and authors); Xuzhou (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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