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Zhuzhou

Syllables: Zhu·zhou/ˌd͡ʒuːˈd͡ʒoʊ/

Zhuzhou proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.

Proper noun

Zhuzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.
    • A June 27 Hsinhua report tells how 8,000 young people have been successfully "settled" and "re-educated" on the outskirts of Chuchou, a city in Hunan province. Success was achieved in this task because "the Chuchou municipal committee of the Chinese Communist party raised its consciousness of the...[1974 August 5, Peter Green, “The Big-Character Posters on the Walls of China”, in Intercontinental Press, volume 12, number 30, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1075, columns 2, 3
    • In the 1960s it was reported that Chinese uranium ore was only partly processed at the Chuchou Uranium Processing Plant in Hunan Province and was then sent to Czechoslovakia for further concentration.[1978, Doing Business with the People's Republic of China: Industries and Markets, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 280

Forms of Zhuzhou

alternative formChu-chou
alternative form (dated)Chuchow

Origin of Zhuzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 株洲 (Zhūzhōu).

Questions about Zhuzhou

What does Zhuzhou mean?
Zhuzhou means a prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.
What part of speech is Zhuzhou?
Zhuzhou is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Zhuzhou?
Zhuzhou is pronounced /ˌd͡ʒuːˈd͡ʒoʊ/.

Words near Zhuzhou in the dictionary

  1. zhuzh
  2. zhuzhable
  3. zhuzhed
  4. zhuzhes
  5. zhuzhing
  6. Zhuzhou
  7. Zhvanets
  8. Zhydachiv
  9. Zhytomyr
  10. zi char
  11. Zia

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