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Guazhou
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Guāzhōu guàzhóu
English
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -cf. en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232, 233 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/233/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Guazhou/Kua-chou romanization of the en cmn 瓜州.
Pronunciation
gwä′jō′cf. Kwachow or Kua-chou 997 2
en Gua zhou
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Jiuquan p/Gansu c/China.
Synonyms
historical en Anxi, en Ansi
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 瓜州
Mandarin: cmn 瓜州
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