Fugu
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English
Alternative forms
- Fu-ku, Fuku (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 府谷 (Fǔgǔ).
Proper noun
Fugu
- A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
- 2002, “Cleaning the Yellow River”, in 修月祯 [Xiu Yuezhen], editor, 旅游英语教程 [Lü you ying yu jiao cheng], Beijing: Renmin University of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 256–257:
- Owing to soil erosion, some farmland has become totally barren. In Chenjiagedu Village, Fugu county, Shanxi Province, since all farmland was lost, the local people were obliged to travel several kilometers for fertile soil.
- 2016 October 24, Chris Buckley, “Explosion Batters Neighborhood in China, Killing 14 and Wounding Nearly 150”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 October 2016, Asia Pacific:
- The explosion occurred in the afternoon in Xinmin, a town in Fugu County, Shaanxi Province, and by early Tuesday rescuers had counted 147 wounded, 113 of whom had been hospitalized, according to Xinhua, the main state news agency.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fugu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1291, column 3