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Onsu

Onsu proper noun: a county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Proper noun

Onsu

  1. A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • Qirmish Ata Mazar is located in a mountain valley 61 km west of Onsu county town, in Aqsu prefecture.2007, Ildikó Bellér-Hann, editor, Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia, Ashgate, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159
    • The Wensu (Onsu) county government in Aqsu district reported taking steps to monitor returnees from pilgrimages in order to “place them in the ‘line of vision’ of the government and Party committee” and “understand” the activities they participated in while abroad.2009 October 10, “Human Rights”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report 2009, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, page 130
    Synonyms:
    Wensu, Wen-su, Wensuh

Examples of Onsu in a sentence

  • He directed his followers to commit a robbery on February 10, 1996, in Onsu County of Xinjiang, which involved the gun killing of two policemen and a herdsman.2010, J. Todd Reed, Diana Raschke, The ETIM: China's Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat, Praeger, →OCLC, page 149:
  • Units of the 5th Division of the 2nd Army also marched in from Yanqi, and, on 29 December 1949, arrived in Onsu (Wensu) County in Aksu Prefecture.2014, Michael Dillon, Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century, Routledge, →ISBN...
  • On Aug. 20, our hosts sent us to the city of Aksu to visit the Onsu County Vocational Skills Training Center.2019, Olsi Jazexhi, “What can the Muslim world do to save the Uighurs and Islam in China?”, in Daily Sabah:

Synonyms of Onsu

Origin of Onsu

From Uyghur ئونسۇ (onsu), from ئون (on, “ten”) + سۇ (su, “river”), literally ten rivers.

Questions about Onsu

What does Onsu mean?
Onsu means a county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
How do you use Onsu in a sentence?
He directed his followers to commit a robbery on February 10, 1996, in Onsu County of Xinjiang, which involved the gun killing of two policemen and a herdsman.
What part of speech is Onsu?
Onsu is a proper noun.

Words near Onsu in the dictionary

  1. onstaffings
  2. onstage
  3. onstead
  4. onsteads
  5. onstream
  6. Onsu
  7. onsweep
  8. onsweeping
  9. onsweeps
  10. ONT
  11. Ont.

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