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Wu-ch'uan

Wu-ch'uan is the alternative form of Wuchuan.

Meaning of Wuchuan

Proper noun (1)

Wuchuan

  1. A county-level city of Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
    • Zheng Ming emphasized the frustration of veterans in describing the background of the July revolt in Wuchuan (formerly Meilu), a poor coastal town of 40,000 in Guangdong Province less than 300 miles west of Hong Kong.[…]
    • Finally on July 1 while the Communist Party was celebrating its 60th anniversary, more than 3,000 members of the brigade stormed Wuchuan, smashing file cabinets and document drawers in government offices.1981 December 12, Michael Weisskopf, “3,000 Chinese Veterans Said to Revolt in Protest Over Treatment”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2023

Proper noun (2)

Wuchuan

  1. A county of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
    • Fifteen hundred Chinese bandits comprising one the principal bodies of the irregular forces invading Suiyuan, surrender to Chinese government forces near Wuchuan after a mutiny against their leader, Wang Ying.1937, “News Summary”, in Philippine Magazine, volume XXXIV, number 1, →OCLC, page 54

Proper noun (3)

Wuchuan

  1. An autonomous county of Zunyi, Guizhou, China.
    • In Chinese texts the first mention of the Tian of Sizhou occurs in 1107, when a native chief (tuqiu) named Tian Yougong submitted to Song rule; in 1118 he was named head of Sizhou prefecture.⁵¹
      Throughout the Tang and Song dynasties the administrative seat of Sizhou prefecture was located near the...2007, John E. Herman, “Mu'ege During the Yuan-Ming Transition”, in Amid the Clouds and Mist: China’s Colonization of Guizhou, 1200–1700 (Harvard East Asian Monographs), number 293, →ISBN, →LCCN...

Origin of Wu-ch'uan

From Mandarin 武川 (Wǔchuān) Wade-Giles romanization: Wu³-chʻuan¹.

From Mandarin 婺川 Wade-Giles romanization: Wu⁴-chʻuan¹.

Questions about Wu-ch'uan

What is Wu-ch'uan the alternative form of?
Wu-ch'uan is the alternative form of Wuchuan.

Words near Wu-ch'uan in the dictionary

  1. wu wei
  2. Wu'an
  3. Wu-ch'ang
  4. Wu-ch'ia
  5. Wu-ch'ing
  6. Wu-ch'uan
  7. Wu-chang
  8. Wu-chiang
  9. Wu-chih
  10. Wu-chou
  11. Wu-flu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wu-ch'uan (page history and authors); Wuchuan (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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