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Shizhu

Syllables: Shi·zhu

Shizhu proper noun: a Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.

Proper noun

Shizhu

  1. A Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
    • The “living fossil”, metasequoia, for example, was once distributed over large areas of Europe, Asia and the Americas from the Cretaceous to the Tertiary periods. Destroyed by glaciers, its natural distribution in China is today limited to Sichuan’s Shizhu county, Hubei’s Lichuan county and Hunan’s...1982 February, Huanran Wen, He Yeheng, “China's Forests—Past and Present”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXXI, number 2, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 66
    • The ministry also summoned officials from the county of Shizhu in southwest China’s Chongqing for allowing an industrial park to encroach on protected nature reserves.2018 June 4, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China summons officials to pollution 'name and shame' meeting”, in Richard Pullin, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 May 2023, Environment

Origin of Shizhu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石柱 (Shízhù).

Questions about Shizhu

What does Shizhu mean?
Shizhu means a Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
What part of speech is Shizhu?
Shizhu is a proper noun.

Words near Shizhu in the dictionary

  1. Shiyan
  2. shiyit
  3. shiz
  4. shize
  5. shizer
  6. Shizhu
  7. Shizishan
  8. shizit
  9. shiznit
  10. shizoku
  11. shizont

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