Zhaotong
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 昭通 (Zhāotōng).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Zhaotong
- A prefecture-level city in Yunnan, China.
- , volume XVIII, number 47, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:
- Military chieftains of three Communist "military regions" (Chengtu, Kunming and Canton) and five provincial “military districts” (Szechwon, Tibet, Yunnan, Kweichow and Kwangsi) held a joint conference last September in Chaotung, Yunnan, to discuss measures to be taken against the guerrilla forces.]
- 2014 August 3, “Hundreds dead after quake strikes Yunnan province”, in France 24, archived from the original on 03 August 2014:
- The US Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.1 quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres (6 miles) at around 8:30 a.m. (GMT).
Most of the deaths were in Zhaotong City, the Xinhua state news agency reported.
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References
- ^ “China”, in The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 16, 1995, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42, columns 1, 2: “Conventional/Wade-Giles Pinyin […] Chao-t'ung.......Zhaotong”
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chaotung or Chao-t’ung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 371, column 3
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhaotong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3562, column 3
- Zhaotong, Chaotung, Chao-t'ung, Chao-tung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.