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Zepu

Syllables: Ze·pu

Zepu proper noun: synonym of Poskam: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Proper noun

Zepu

  1. Synonym of Poskam: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • On October 24, 1999, terrorists were said to have attacked the police station in Saili [translating 賽力 /赛力 (Sàilì)] Township, Zepu County, with guns, machetes, incendiary bombs, and grenades.2009, Hasan H. Karrar, “Deepening Sino-Central Asian Cooperation, 1996-2001”, in The New Silk Road Diplomacy: China's Central Asian Foreign Policy since the Cold War (Contemporary Chinese Studies)...
    • An official from neighboring Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture’s Poskam (Zepu) county, who also asked to remain unnamed, told RFA that authorities have been instructed to “make sure that everything is safe” while patrolling the streets of the county, and that they had been provided with notebooks...2018 January 8, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Uyghur Detentions Continue in Xinjiang, Despite Pledge to End With Party Congress”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2018
    Synonyms:
    Poskam

Synonyms of Zepu

Forms of Zepu

alternative formTse-p'u

Origin of Zepu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 澤普 /泽普 (Zépǔ).

Questions about Zepu

What does Zepu mean?
Zepu means synonym of Poskam: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
What part of speech is Zepu?
Zepu is a proper noun.

Words near Zepu in the dictionary

  1. zeptomolar
  2. zeptomole
  3. zeptomoles
  4. zeptosecond
  5. zeptoseconds
  6. Zepu
  7. zequals
  8. zequeen
  9. zequeens
  10. zequin
  11. zequins

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