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O-chou

O-chou is the alternative form of Ezhou.

Meaning of Ezhou

Proper noun

Ezhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hubei, China.
    • Tienlin said to me that in the district of Yochow and Ochow [Wuchang], the poor farmers as a rule raise only two sons and one daughter, and kill babies at birth beyond this number.[1947 [1083], Su Tung-po, “Letter to Chu Kang-shu, Chief Magistrate of Ochow”, in Lin Yutang, Rhoda Hoff, editors, China: Adventures in Eyewitness History, Henry Z. Walck, published 1965, →LCCN...
    Synonyms:
    Wu-chang

Origin of O-chou

From Mandarin 鄂州 (Èzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: O⁴-chou¹.

Questions about O-chou

What is O-chou the alternative form of?
O-chou is the alternative form of Ezhou.

Words near O-chou in the dictionary

  1. O-1B
  2. O-1Bs
  3. O-1s
  4. O-ch'eng
  5. o-chem
  6. O-chou
  7. o-CNB
  8. o-dark-thirty
  9. o-face
  10. o-faces
  11. o-fer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: O-chou (page history and authors); Ezhou (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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