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Qinzhou

Syllables: Qin·zhou

Qinzhou proper noun: a district in modern Tianshui, Gansu, China.

Proper noun (1)

Qinzhou

  1. A district in modern Tianshui, Gansu, China.
    • Qincheng (now called Qinzhou) District Court, in Gansu Province's Tianshui City, in Northwestern China, also saw high numbers of counterrevolutionary trials during the early 1950s.2018, William Hurst, “Law and Revolution: Mobilizational Justice and Charismatic Politics”, in Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia (Cambridge Studies in Law...

Proper noun (2)

Qinzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
    • A businessman in the southwestern region of Guangxi has pleaded guilty to charges of killing and eating at least three tigers last year, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
      Prosecutors in the city of Qinzhou said the defendant, identified only as Mr. Xu, “has a quirky appetite for eating...2014 June 13, Shaojie Huang, “Businessman Guilty of Killing and Eating Tigers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2022, Sinosphere
    • U.S. remote-control maker Universal Electronics Inc (UEIC.O) told Reuters it struck a deal with authorities in Xinjiang to transport hundreds of Uyghur workers to its plant in the southern Chinese city of Qinzhou, the first confirmed instance of an American company participating in a transfer...2021 October 8, Cate Cadell, “EXCLUSIVE US electronics firm struck deal to transport and hire Uyghur workers”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2021

Forms of Qinzhou

alternative formTsinchow
alternative formCh'in-chou
alternative formYamchow

Origin of Qinzhou

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 秦州 (Qínzhōu).

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 欽州 /钦州 (Qīnzhōu).

Questions about Qinzhou

What does Qinzhou mean?
Qinzhou means a district in modern Tianshui, Gansu, China.
What part of speech is Qinzhou?
Qinzhou is a proper noun.

Words near Qinzhou in the dictionary

  1. qintar
  2. qintarka
  3. qintars
  4. Qinyang
  5. Qinyuan
  6. Qinzhou
  7. qiné
  8. qinés
  9. Qionghai
  10. Qiongshan
  11. Qiongzhong

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