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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 秭歸／秭归 (Zǐguī).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tzekwei
- Alternative form of Zigui
1928, Chinese Economic Journal, volume 2, Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Industry, →OCLC, page 56:Tzekwei (秭歸) and Patung (巴東) produce about ten thousand tons.
1945, Journal of Paleontology, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56:The same formation is shown farther east on the Yangtze at Tzekwei district (=Kweichow Fu) in western Hupeh and on the Taning-ho where it was named the Kweichow formation by Willis and Blackwelder.
1990, Frederic L. Holmes, “Li Siguang”, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume 18, Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 553:During a vacation in 1923, Li and his assistant, Zhao Yazeng (Y. T. Chao), investigated the geology of the Yangtze Valley from Ichang to Tzekwei, which subsequent geologists have classified as belonging to the Paleozoic stratigraphy of central China.
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