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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 梧州 (Wúzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Wu²-chou¹.[1]
Proper noun
Wu-chou
- Alternative form of Wuzhou
1973, Gilbert Rozman, Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 244:An even longer river which flowed through Wu-chou to Canton was the Pearl. One level 3b city, Nan-ning fu, and two level 4 cities, Hsün-chou fu and Kuei hsien, served as ports en route to Wu-chou. The other level 3b city, Liu-chou fu, was located on a tributary of the Pearl river in an area from which lumber was sent to Kwangtung. Together with rice from Hsün-chou fu and Nan-ning fu, lumber and other products from the mountains sailed downriver to Wu-chou.
1982, Albert Chan, “After the Fall of Peking”, in The Glory and Fall of the Ming Dynasty, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 371:The Yung-li ruler, finding Chao-ch’ing insecure, fled to Wu-chou (梧州), Kuangsi province, and then to Kuei-lin, vigorously pursued by the Manchu army.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wu-chou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 1
- “Wu-chou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.