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Xinzhou

Syllables: Xin·zhou

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

Proper noun (1)

Xinzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
    • Like many gay Chinese growing up at the turn of the millennium, Duan Shuai began his long, deliberate process of coming out online. After school, he would visit the newly opened internet cafe in his hometown, Xinzhou, a small city in Shanxi Province bounded by a veil of mountains.[…]
    • When Duan opens up the app anywhere in the country, be it in Beijing’s bustling commercial district Sanlitun or back in Xinzhou, he’ll find an endless scroll of users: cosmopolitan yuppies dressed in drag, rural blue-collar workers with faceless profiles.2020 March 5, Yi-Ling Liu, “How a Dating App Helped a Generation of Chinese Come Out of the Closet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2020, Feature

Proper noun (2)

Xinzhou

  1. A district of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
    • The vague wording of the Xinzhou district government’s statement Saturday, which said workers had “decontaminated” the animal though there was no indication it had been infected with the coronavirus, helped fuel the outcry.
      The pet’s owner or owners could not be reached for comment. According to an...2021 November 14, Austin Ramzy, “A video of decontamination workers clubbing a pet corgi stirs anger in China.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2021, Asia...

Proper noun (3)

Xinzhou

  1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Forms of Xinzhou

alternative formHsin-chou
alternative formSinchow

Origin of Xinzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 忻州 (Xīnzhōu).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 信州 (Xìnzhōu).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新洲 (Xīnzhōu).

Questions about Xinzhou

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

Words near Xinzhou in the dictionary

  1. Xinyi
  2. Xinying
  3. Xinyizhou
  4. Xinyu
  5. Xinzheng
  6. Xinzhou
  7. Xinzhu
  8. Xinzhuang
  9. xiong
  10. Xiong'an
  11. Xiong'an New Area

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