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Lanzhou
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Lánzhōu
English
Alternative forms
en Lanchow historical obsolete
en Lan-chou Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 79-42627 781411242 476, 481 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/481/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Lan-chou (Lanzhou) zh 蘭州 romanization of the en cmn 蘭州.
Pronunciation
län′jō′Lanchow or Lan-chou 1016 1Lan-chou or Lan·chow 402 2
en Lan zhou
en
Proper noun
en Q183584en prefecture-level city/provincial capital p/Gansu in northwestern c/China.
en 2008 w:William Lindesay The Great Wall Revisited: From the Jade Gate to Old Dragon's Head https://archive.org/details/greatwallrevisit0000lind/ w:Harvard University Press 978-0-674-03149-4 2008007122 473941553 16505772M 112 https://archive.org/details/greatwallrevisit0000lind/page/112/ Construction of this expressway, linking Lanzhou with Wulumuchi, has continued further west as part of the central government’s attempt to equalize the balance of economic development between the prosperous east and the less developed western interior.
en October 21, 2021 Ryan Woo; Roxanne Liu; Liangping Gao Parts of northern China brace for more COVID-19 lockdowns and curbs Christian Schmollinger; Gerry Doyle https://web.archive.org/web/20211021063220/https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/parts-northern-china-brace-more-covid-19-lockdowns-curbs-2021-10-21/ 21 October 2021 w:Reuters Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals In northwestern Gansu province, where nine local confirmed cases have been reported in the past week, primary and high schools in the provincial capital of Lanzhou, as well as in one county in Jiuquan city, have suspended offline classes.
en
Descendants
Translingual: Lanzhousaurus genus
Translations
a city of China
Arabic: ar لَانْغْتْشُو m lanḡtšū, ar لَانْغْجُو m lanḡjū
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 蘭州 laan4 zau1
Dungan: dng Ланҗу
Mandarin: cmn 蘭州 Lánzhōu
Chinese Sign Language: csl L@Side-PalmForward L@Trunk-PalmForward 1@Finger-FingerAcross-6@PalmBackFingerDown
Finnish: fi Lanzhou
French: fr Lanzhou
Hindi: hi लान्झू f
Hungarian: hu Lancsou
Japanese: ja 蘭州 らんしゅう, Ranshū
Korean: ko ^란저우
Macedonian: mk Ла́нџоу n
Manchu: mnc ᠯᠠᠨ ᠵᡝᠣ
Mongolian: mn Ланьжоу
Russian: ru Ланьчжо́у m
Tibetan: bo
Uyghur: ug لەنجۇ شەھىرى
Vietnamese: vi Lan Châu
Zhuang: za Lanzcouh
References
Further reading
Lanzhou in Encyclopædia Britannica
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Anagrams
en ahlnouz halzoun
en 2-syllable words