Yochow

Examples of Yochow in a sentence

• In the west there is the southern section of the Peiping-Hankow Railway and the line from Wuchang to Yochow and Changsha.1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 293:
• From Yochow the now fully armed forces swept irresistibly down the Yangtze valley until in March, 1853, they established themselves at Nanking, the ancient capital of the Ming dynasty.1944, G. Nye Steiger, A History of the Far East, Ginn and Company, →OCLC, page 546:
• In November 1938, Yochow, above Hankow, fell to their arms, followed a number of months later, in June 1940, by Ichang, still farther up the Yangtze.1946, Kenneth Scott Latourette, A Short History of the Far East, New York: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, pages 601–602:
• Northern troops had been chased from Szechwan and from all of Hunan except Yochow, near the northern border between Hunan and Hupeh.1966, James E. Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page...

Synonyms of Yochow

• Yueyang

Origin of Yochow

Borrowed from Mandarin 岳州 (Yuèzhōu), possibly through Nanjing Mandarin.

Questions about Yochow

What does Yochow mean?

Yochow means synonym of Yueyang; Yuezhou.

How do you use Yochow in a sentence?

In the west there is the southern section of the Peiping-Hankow Railway and the line from Wuchang to Yochow and Changsha.

What part of speech is Yochow?

Yochow is a proper noun.