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Wenchou

Wenchou is the alternative form of Wenzhou.

Meaning of Wenzhou

Proper noun

Wenzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, in southeastern China.
    • The issue of land ownership rights came into focus in Wenzhou in April after the local government demanded that homeowners whose land-use rights had expired after 20 years pay fees of up to a third of the value of their homes before they could sell their apartments. The decision provoked protests...2016 December 26, Sui-Lee Wee, “China Reassures Homeowners Worried About Land Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2016, Business
    Synonyms:
    Yongjia, Yung-chia

Origin of Wenchou

From Mandarin 溫州 /温州 (Wēnzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Wên¹-chou¹.

Questions about Wenchou

What is Wenchou the alternative form of?
Wenchou is the alternative form of Wenzhou.

Words near Wenchou in the dictionary

  1. wenchless
  2. wenchlike
  3. wenchly
  4. wenchman
  5. wenchmen
  6. Wenchou
  7. Wenchow
  8. Wenchowese
  9. Wenchuan
  10. wenchy
  11. Wenck

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wenchou (page history and authors); Wenzhou (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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