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Lei-chou
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English
Etymology
From en cmn 雷州 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Lei²-chou¹.Leizhou Peninsula, (Wade-Giles romanization) Lei-chou Pan-tao, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Proper noun
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en Leizhou.
en 1967 w:Edward H. Schafer The Vermilion Bird https://archive.org/details/vermilionbirdtan00scha/ w:University of California Press 67-10463 802763855 5533953M 30 https://archive.org/details/vermilionbirdtan00scha/page/30/ At the opposite end of the province from the relatively cool northern hills was a long peninsula projecting towards the tropical island of Hainan — our modern atlases show it as Luichow. In T’ang times it was under the jurisdiction of Lei-chou.
Translations
Leizhou
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