Huoqiu
Syllables: Huo·qiu
Huoqiu proper noun: a county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
Proper noun
Huoqiu
- A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
- An example of success through relying on the masses was our problem of cutting a canal through Pingkang Hill in Huochiu county.[1974 December, Chih-chang Chen, “Dry Hills into Water Country”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIII, number 12, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 1
- One phase of Maoist land reconstruction policy for which nobody now has a good word to say is the reclamation of lakes. In Huoqiu county in western Anhui, Chengxi Lake was partly reclaimed, reducing its area by two-thirds and its capacity of 700 million cu m by nine-tenths. As a direct result, the...1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91
Forms of Huoqiu
| alternative form | Huo-ch'iu |
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Origin of Huoqiu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 霍邱 /霍丘 (Huòqiū).
Questions about Huoqiu
- What does Huoqiu mean?
- Huoqiu means a county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
- What part of speech is Huoqiu?
- Huoqiu is a proper noun.
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