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Qujing
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qǔjǐng qǔjīng Qūjìng
English
Alternative forms
en Ch'ü-ching Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1998 Blunden Caroline Gazetteer Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 232, 235 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/235/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Qujing/Chü-chingCh'ü-ching 25°29′N 103°47′E, romanization of the en cmn 曲靖.
Pronunciation
en /t͡ʃuːˈd͡ʒɪŋ/
chü′jĭng′en 1952 Kütsing or Ch’ü-ching Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 996 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/996/ 1
en Qu jing
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Yunnan c/China.
en 1914 Alexander Hosie On the Trail of the Opium Poppy https://archive.org/details/b31360099_0001/ 1 w:Small, Maynard & Company 3633929 88 https://archive.org/details/b31360099_0001/page/88/ The traffic in eggs was enormous, and I found, on inquiry, that they came from the prefectural city of Ch'ü-ching Fu, as a collecting centre, a four and a half days' journey to the north-east of Yunnan Fu, and that the traffic ceased in summer, not owing to the heat, which, one might imagine, would have a tendency to addle the eggs, but to the concomitant of heat and moisture, the mosquito, the female of which pierces the shells with her proboscis and thereby admits the air. on
en 1978 July Yu-ting Tu; Chen Lu-fan Was There a Massive Exodus of Thais? Eastern Horizon https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1978-07_17_7/ XVII 7 Hong Kong Eastern Horizon Press 0012-8813 751117974 30 https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1978-07_17_7/page/30/ 1 The most prominent service Tuan rendered to the Mongols was the suppression of the uprising in 1264 of some 100,000 people from the various tribes in Yunnan. The uprising spread from the present Yuhsi in Yunnan to other towns like Chuching and Chuhsiung, and finally Chungching (Kunming) fell to the rebel forces. on
en 2001 February Paul Hattaway China's Unreached Cities https://archive.org/details/chinasunreachedc0001hatt/ 1 Chiang Mai, Thailand Darawan Printing 974-85303-8-8 43922815 9183612M 76 https://archive.org/details/chinasunreachedc0001hatt/page/76/ 1 Although 96% of the city’s population are ethnic Han Chinese, there is a collection of minority peoples also in Qujing. The largest of these are the more-than 16,000 Yi, followed by 11,000 Hui, 3,000 Miao and 1,200 members of the Bai nationality.
en
Translations
prefecture-level city in China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 曲靖
Mandarin: cmn 曲靖 Qūjìng
Japanese: ja
Korean: ko
References
Further reading
Qujing, Ch'u-ching, Chu-ching, Chuching
en 1998 Qujing Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2558 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2558/ 2