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Dezhou
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English
Alternative forms
en Te-chou Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -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 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/232/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Dezhou/Te-chou romanization of the en cmn 德州.
Pronunciation
dŭ′jō′Tehchow or Te-chou 1888 1
en De zhou
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Shandong c/China.
en 1907 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. A. B. C. F. M. (zh 美國公理會), 1810. D. MacGillivray A Century of Protestant Missions in China (1807-1907) Being the Centenary Conference Historical Volume https://archive.org/details/centuryofprotest00macg_0/ Shanghai American Presbyterian Mission Press 5984164 269 https://archive.org/details/centuryofprotest00macg_0/page/269/ In the winter of 1866-7 Messrs. Stanley and Williams made a tour to Têchou, Shantung, about 160 miles to the south, and later Messrs. Stanley and Goodrich made the same trip. on
en 2007 Reading Promotion in China Bookbird 45 3 https://web.archive.org/web/20260818003324/https://www.ibby.org/archive-storage/06_Bookbird_14579/1025584/1025584_PDF_00001.pdf https://www.ibby.org/archive-storage/06_Bookbird_14579/1025584/1025584_PDF_00001.pdf August 18, 2026 0006-7377 890556149 58 In addition, two model reading centres have been identified: one in Dezhou in Shandong Province and the other in Shenzhen in Guangdong Province.
en 04/18/2018 Chinese driving school makes students put phones on line https://web.archive.org/web/20180418212605/https://observers.france24.com/en/20180418-drive-well-or-crush-smartphone-no-room-error-these-student-drivers-china 18 April 2018 w:France 24 A driving teacher in China is using an unorthodox method to get his students to drive with more care. He calls it the “fatal blow” method. Basically, students have to manoeuvre the car with skill or risk crushing their smartphones... or those of their classmates.An amateur video documenting this unique technique was posted on April 10 on the Beijing Time YouTube channel. It was filmed at “Jade horse” driving school in Dezhou, a town located 300 kilometres south of Beijing in China’s Shandong province.
en
Translations
prefecture-level city
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 德州
Mandarin: cmn 德州 Dézhōu
References
Further reading
en 2008 Dezhou Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1011 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1011/ 2
en 2-syllable words