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Ruzhou

Syllables: Ru·zhou

Ruzhou proper noun: a county-level city of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.

Proper noun

Ruzhou

  1. A county-level city of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
    • Ju-yao or Juchou porcelain.—Chinese authors state that the porcelain manufactured at Tingchou (see p. 402), being unfit for presentation to the emperor, the establishment of a factory for the manufacture of more suitable articles was ordered at Juchou, in Honan province.[1890, Alfred E. Hippisley, A Catalogue of the Hippisley Collection of Chinese Porcelains, with a Sketch of the History of Ceramic Art in China., Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC...
    • The Ju Yao of the Sung dynasty was made at Ju-chou, the modern Ju-chou-fu, in the province of Honan.[1908, Yuan-p'ien Hsiang, translated by Stephen W. Bushell, Chinese Porcelain: Sixteenth-Century Coloured Illustrations with Chinese ms. Text, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 12

Examples of Ruzhou in a sentence

  • Ruzhou, a town surrounded by coal mines in Henan Province, borrowed and spent in line with China’s government-driven fads, which helped guarantee that Beijing would pay for much of it.2019 November 10, Alexandra Stevenson, Cao Li, “How Bad Is China’s Debt? A City Hospital Is Asking Nurses for Loans”, in The New York...
  • In Ruzhou, a city southwest of Zhengzhou, streets have been turned into torrents, sweeping away cars and other vehicles, footage on social media showed.2021 July 20, Ryan Woo, “Dozen central Chinese cities under water as river banks burst”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the...

Origin of Ruzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汝州 (Rǔzhōu).

Questions about Ruzhou

What does Ruzhou mean?
Ruzhou means a county-level city of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
How do you use Ruzhou in a sentence?
Ruzhou, a town surrounded by coal mines in Henan Province, borrowed and spent in line with China’s government-driven fads, which helped guarantee that Beijing would pay for much of it.
What part of speech is Ruzhou?
Ruzhou is a proper noun.

Words near Ruzhou in the dictionary

  1. Ruybal
  2. Ruybals
  3. Ruyle
  4. Ruyles
  5. Ruyton-XI-Towns
  6. Ruzhou
  7. Ruzicka
  8. Ruzicka Goerz Anton syndrome
  9. Ruzickas
  10. Ruzizi
  11. Ruzow

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