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Zuoquan

Syllables: Zuo·quan

Zuoquan proper noun: a county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Zuoquan

  1. A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
    • Yü Shê is the county adjoining Liao Chou on the west, and has been rather a difficult field.[...]The governor of our province has subscribed $500 (Mex.) toward the purchase of X-ray equipment for the Liao Chou Hospital.[1924 May, “China Notes for February”, in The Missionary Visitor, volume XXVI, number 5, →OCLC, page 143
    • Matian Bridge, built recently in Zuoquan County, an old revolutionary base in Shanxi, was opened to traffic on 1 August.[…]
    • Matian is the place where the general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was located during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai, Zuo Quan and other comrades commanded important battles here.[…]The bridge was...1983 August 8 [1983 August 6], “Deng Xiaoping Greets Shanxi Bridge Completion”, in Daily Report: China, number 153, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA Domestic...

Examples of Zuoquan in a sentence

  • On July 7 of the same year, the Provisional Assembly of Representatives of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Border Area was inaugurated in Liaoxian County (now Zuoquan County), Shanxi Province.1992, Deng Xiaoping, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 314:
  • The "Xiaohuaxi" (small lantern dance) found in Zuoquan, Shanxi Province is also a kind of small local opera.1999, 孙景琛 [Sun Jingchen], 罗雄岩 [Luo Xiongyan], 资华筠 [Zi Huayun], translated by Li Jinhui, Liu Jun, and Zhang Qizhi, edited by 资华筠 [Zi...
  • In mid-September of 2002, a month before the competition in Xianju, Zuoquan County organized a large-scale commemoration for a local Eighth Route Army general.2020, Levi S. Gibbs, Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:

Forms of Zuoquan

alternative formTsochuan

Origin of Zuoquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 左權 /左权 (Zuǒquán, literally “Zuo Quan”), a general in the Chinese Red Army who died in 1942. For the name of the county, the correct standard formatting of the Hanyu Pinyin romanization is Zuǒquán Xiàn and is not Zuǒ Quán Xiàn. The 1984 rule states that when a person's name is used in a place name, the surname and given name in the place name are joined together without a space between them. The rule gives Zuoquan County as an example application for the rule.

Questions about Zuoquan

What does Zuoquan mean?
Zuoquan means a county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
How do you use Zuoquan in a sentence?
On July 7 of the same year, the Provisional Assembly of Representatives of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Border Area was inaugurated in Liaoxian County (now Zuoquan County), Shanxi Province.
What part of speech is Zuoquan?
Zuoquan is a proper noun.

Words near Zuoquan in the dictionary

  1. zunyite
  2. zunzuncito
  3. zunzuncitos
  4. Zuo
  5. Zuojhen
  6. Zuoquan
  7. Zuos
  8. Zuoying
  9. Zuoyun
  10. Zuozhen
  11. zup

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