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K'o-shih

K'o-shih proper noun: synonym of Kashgar.

k'o-shih: synonym of Kashgar
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Proper noun

K'o-shih

  1. Synonym of Kashgar.
    • The Kucha group includes the three hsien of Yen-ch’i, Kucha, and Aqsu. The people of these places are peaceful, and besides engaging in agriculture, have handicraft trades. The Kashgar group includes all the counties of K’o-shih Ch’ü. This is the principal center of the Ch’an Hui, who are...1944, Martin R. Norins, quoting Sheng Shih-ts’ai yü Hsin Hsin-chiang, “The Racial Question of Sinkiang”, in Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West, John Day Company, →OCLC, page...
    • K'o-shih Special Administrative District of Sinkiang had 1,630,000 mou of winter wheat under cultivation.1954, CALAMITY DAMAGE AND CROP DATA, APRIL-OCTOBER 1953, EXTRACTED FROM CHINESE COMMUNIST PRESS, Central Intelligence Agency, page 2
    Synonyms:
    Kashgar

Examples of K'o-shih in a sentence

  • Its Chinese official name is K'o-shih, an abbreviated form of K'o-shih-k'a-erh, the phonetic rendering of Kashgar.1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of The Chinese People's Republic, Frederick A. Praeger...
  • This route extends from Kashgar (K'o-shih) in Sinkiang to Gartok in extreme western Tibet.late 1950s, LOGISTICAL PROBLEMS OF THE TIBETAN CAMPAIGN, page 7:
  • The K'o-tzu-lo-su Kirghiz chou bordered on the K'o-shih chuan-ch'ü and its seat at A-t'u-shih was only twenty-five kilometers from K'o-shih shih.1963, Henry Guenter Schwarz, Policies and Administration of Minority Areas in Northwest China and Inner Mongolia, 1949-1959, volume 2 (PhD...
  • Kashgar (K'o-shih), about 110 miles from the border, with a population of over 100,000, is the largest city in West Sinkiang as well as a road center.1971 March 19, Jesse Wang, The Military Significance of the Sino-Soviet Border in Central Asia, United States Army War College, →OCLC, page...

Synonyms of K'o-shih

Origin of K'o-shih

From Mandarin 喀什 (Kèshí), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻo⁴-shih².

Questions about K'o-shih

What does K'o-shih mean?
K'o-shih means synonym of Kashgar.
How do you use K'o-shih in a sentence?
Its Chinese official name is K'o-shih, an abbreviated form of K'o-shih-k'a-erh, the phonetic rendering of Kashgar.
What part of speech is K'o-shih?
K'o-shih is a proper noun.

Words near K'o-shih in the dictionary

  1. k'ins
  2. K'itan
  3. K'itans
  4. k'nick-k'neck
  5. K'nyaw
  6. K'o-shih
  7. K'o-tzu-le-su
  8. K'o-tzu-lo-su
  9. K'omoks
  10. k'rect card
  11. k'rect cards

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