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Hsin-chou

Hsin-chou is the alternative form of Xinzhou.

Meaning of Xinzhou

Proper noun (1)

Xinzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
    • Like many gay Chinese growing up at the turn of the millennium, Duan Shuai began his long, deliberate process of coming out online. After school, he would visit the newly opened internet cafe in his hometown, Xinzhou, a small city in Shanxi Province bounded by a veil of mountains.[…]
    • When Duan opens up the app anywhere in the country, be it in Beijing’s bustling commercial district Sanlitun or back in Xinzhou, he’ll find an endless scroll of users: cosmopolitan yuppies dressed in drag, rural blue-collar workers with faceless profiles.2020 March 5, Yi-Ling Liu, “How a Dating App Helped a Generation of Chinese Come Out of the Closet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2020, Feature

Proper noun (2)

Xinzhou

  1. A district of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
    • The vague wording of the Xinzhou district government’s statement Saturday, which said workers had “decontaminated” the animal though there was no indication it had been infected with the coronavirus, helped fuel the outcry.
      The pet’s owner or owners could not be reached for comment. According to an...2021 November 14, Austin Ramzy, “A video of decontamination workers clubbing a pet corgi stirs anger in China.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2021, Asia...

Proper noun (3)

Xinzhou

  1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Origin of Hsin-chou

From Mandarin 忻州 (Xīnzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsin¹-chou¹.

From Mandarin 新州 (Xīnzhōu) Wade-Giles romanization: Hsin¹-chou¹.

From Mandarin 新洲 (Xīnzhōu) Wade-Giles romanization: Hsin¹-chou¹.

Questions about Hsin-chou

What is Hsin-chou the alternative form of?
Hsin-chou is the alternative form of Xinzhou.

Words near Hsin-chou in the dictionary

  1. Hsienning
  2. hsiens
  3. Hsikang
  4. HSIL
  5. Hsin-chiang
  6. Hsin-chou
  7. Hsin-chu
  8. Hsin-hsiang
  9. Hsin-kiang
  10. Hsin-yang
  11. Hsincheng

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsin-chou (page history and authors); Xinzhou (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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