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Shuozhou

Syllables: Shuo·zhou

Shuozhou proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Shuozhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
    • In northernmost Shansi, Chang had pressed deeply inside the ancient Great Wall, taking first Ta-t’ung and then Shuochou. On May 8, Yen was finally able to mount a counteroffensive, which retook Shuochou and pushed Chang's Ankuochün back out of northern Shansi.[1976, Donald A. Jordan, “The Peking Campaign: Completion of the Military Unification”, in The Northern Expedition: China's National Revolution of 1926-1928, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press...
    • The blast occurred Saturday at the Xishui Colliery in Shuozhou, a major coal mining area in Shanxi province.2005 March 21, “WORLD IN BRIEF”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2024

Forms of Shuozhou

alternative formShuo-chou

Origin of Shuozhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 朔州 (Shuòzhōu).

Questions about Shuozhou

What does Shuozhou mean?
Shuozhou means a prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
What part of speech is Shuozhou?
Shuozhou is a proper noun.

Words near Shuozhou in the dictionary

  1. shunyatas
  2. Shunyi
  3. Shuocheng
  4. shuotheriid
  5. shuotheriids
  6. Shuozhou
  7. shup
  8. Shupe
  9. Shupert
  10. Shuperts
  11. Shupes

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