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Kochiu

Kochiu is the dated form of Gejiu.

Meaning of Gejiu

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

Origin of Kochiu

Borrowed from Mandarin 箇舊／个旧 (Gèjiù).

Questions about Kochiu

What is Kochiu the dated form of?
Kochiu is the dated form of Gejiu.

Words near Kochiu in the dictionary

  1. Kochi
  2. kochia
  3. kochias
  4. Kochis
  5. kochite
  6. Kochiu
  7. kochkarite
  8. kochliaria
  9. kochliarion
  10. Kochman
  11. Kochmans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kochiu (page history and authors); Gejiu (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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