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Ezhou
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Èzhōu
English
Alternative forms
en E'zhou misspelling
en O-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, 233 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/233/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Ezhou/O-chou/E/Shouchang 30°23′N 114°50′E, romanization of the en cmn 鄂州.
Pronunciation
en /ˌʌˈd͡ʒoʊ/
ŭ′jō′
en E zhou
Proper noun
en proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Hubei c/China.
en 1947 1083 w:Su Tung-po Letter to Chu Kang-shu, Chief Magistrate of Ochow w:Lin Yutang; Rhoda Hoff China: Adventures in Eyewitness History https://archive.org/details/chinaadventuresi00hoff/ 1965 w:Henry Z. Walck 65-23253 1294671 18 https://archive.org/details/chinaadventuresi00hoff/page/18/ Tienlin said to me that in the district of Yochow and Ochow [Wuchang], the poor farmers as a rule raise only two sons and one daughter, and kill babies at birth beyond this number. on
en January 23, 2020 Adam Taylor Wuhan: The Chinese mega-city at the center of coronavirus outbreak https://web.archive.org/web/20200123195738/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/23/wuhan-chinese-mega-city-center-coronavirus-outbreak/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/23/wuhan-chinese-mega-city-center-coronavirus-outbreak/ January 23, 2020 Asia The neighboring city of Huanggang, which has a population of roughly 6 million, said it would join Wuhan’s quarantine from midnight on Thursday. The nearby city of Ezhou, home to 1 million people, has also shut down its railway stations.
en February 8, 2023 Daisuke Wakabayashi; Claire Fu China’s Bid to Improve Food Production? Giant Towers of Pigs. https://web.archive.org/web/20230208100730/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/business/china-pork-farms.html 08 February 2023 The building, on the outskirts of Ezhou, a city on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, is hailed as the world’s biggest free-standing pig farm, with a second, identical hog high-rise opening soon.
Synonyms
en Wu-chang (historical)
Translations
prefecture-level city in central China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 鄂州
Mandarin: cmn 鄂州 Èzhōu
Japanese: ja 鄂州 がくしゅう,gakushū
See also
en E, an ancient kingdom in the area
References
Further reading
en 2008 Ezhou 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 1190 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1190/ 3
Anagrams
en ehouz Houze Huezo