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Shufu

Syllables: Shu·fu

Shufu proper noun: a county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Proper noun

Shufu

  1. A county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • Kashgar is the largest city of the Tarim basin, situated also near the Soviet border. Its Chinese official name is K'o-shih, an abbreviated form of K'o-shih-k'a-erh, the phonetic rendering of Kashgar. Prior to 1950, Kashgar was known as Shufu. The city has a population of about 75,000...1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of The Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 257
    • A police officer reached by Reuters in the county where the incident occurred, called Shufu county in Chinese, said it was “not convenient” to provide any additional information.2013 December 16, Ben Blanchard, Megha Rajagopalan, “Riot in China's Xinjiang kills 16, 'terror gang' blamed”, in Raju Gopalakrishnan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2017...
    Synonyms:
    Konaxahar, Konasheher, Kona Sheher

Synonyms of Shufu

  • Konaxahar
  • Konasheher
  • Kona Sheher

Forms of Shufu

alternative formShu-fu

Origin of Shufu

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 疏附 (Shūfù).

Questions about Shufu

What does Shufu mean?
Shufu means a county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
What part of speech is Shufu?
Shufu is a proper noun.

Words near Shufu in the dictionary

  1. shufties
  2. shuftis
  3. shuftiscope
  4. shuftiscopes
  5. shufty
  6. Shufu
  7. shug
  8. Shug Monkey
  9. shugar
  10. Shugars
  11. Shugarses

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