Wuxue
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 武穴 (Wǔxué).
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Proper noun
Wuxue
- A county-level city in Huanggang, Hubei, China.
- 1994 March, Michael Buckley, Alan Samagalski, Robert Storey, Chris Taylor, Clem Lindenmayer, “Hubei”, in China (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 340:
- Heading downriver on leaving Wuhan, the steamer passes through Huangshi in eastern Hubei Province. […] Near the border with Jiangxi on the north bank is the town of Wuxue, noted for the production of bamboo goods.
- 1998, Hong-Juan Wu, Yong-Tai Lin, Han-Yun Yang, Yue-Hua Wan, Qin Zhang, “Adapting Integrated Fish Farming Principles to Improve Fish Yields in Meicuan Reservoir, China”, in Jack A. Mathias, Anthony T. Charles, Hu Baotong, editors, Integrated Fish Farming: Proceedings of a Workshop on Integrated Fish Farming held in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China, October 11-15, 1994, CRC Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 309:
- Meicuan Reservoir, impounded in 1958, is located at Meicuan town, Wuxue City, Hubei Province. It lies north of the midstream section of the Yangtze River (115°30' E and 30°17' N).
- 2006 October 13, Caroline Bailey, “China's full-time computer gamers”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2007-02-05:
- In a scruffy apartment building down a muddy back alley in the provincial town of Wuxue in Hubei Province, one of China's newest industries is taking off.
- 2009, Victoria Chu, “Wu, Dingfu (吴定福 b. 1946)”, in Wenxian Zhang, Ilan Alon, editors, Biographical Dictionary of New Chinese Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders [中国经济风云人物], Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 195:
- After graduating from Hubei University with a specialization in Chinese language and literature, Wu Dingfu, a native of Wuxue City, Hubei Province, worked as a teacher in Wuxue Middle School in Guangji County from 1969 to 1980.
- 2018 November 12, Dominique Patton, “China confirms African swine fever outbreak in Hubei province”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2018-11-13, Health News:
- China’s agricultural ministry said on Tuesday it had confirmed an outbreak of African swine fever in central Hubei province.
The disease was found to have killed six of a combined 147 pigs on two neighboring farms in Wuxue city, the ministry said.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wuxue.
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References
- ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 368:
- Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Wusüeh (Wu-hsüeh, Wuxue)
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wusüeh or Wu-hsüeh”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2109, column 1
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuxue”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 2
- Wuxue, Wusueh, Wuhsueh, Wu-hsueh at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.