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Shang-ch'iu

Shang-ch'iu is the alternative form of Shangqiu.

Meaning of Shangqiu

Proper noun

Shangqiu

  1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
    • During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the number of middle school students in Shangchiu Prefecture was ten times that before the Cultural Revolution, in addition to universal primary school education.[1976 August 24 [1976 August 23], “NCNA Report on Honan Rural Teachers College”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 165, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from...
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Origin of Shang-ch'iu

From Mandarin 商丘 /商邱 (Shāngqiū), Wade–Giles romanization: Shang¹-chʻiu¹.

Questions about Shang-ch'iu

What is Shang-ch'iu the alternative form of?
Shang-ch'iu is the alternative form of Shangqiu.

Words near Shang-ch'iu in the dictionary

  1. Shanes
  2. Shanes Park
  3. Shaneyfelt
  4. Shaneyfelts
  5. shang
  6. Shang-ch'iu
  7. Shang-hae
  8. Shang-hai
  9. Shang-jao
  10. Shang-lo
  11. Shangaan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shang-ch'iu (page history and authors); Shangqiu (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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