Chaozhou

• (obsolete) Chaou-chow, Chaochow
• (from Wade–Giles) Chaochou, Ch'ao-chou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 潮州 (Cháozhōu).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaʊ̯ˈt͡soʊ/

Chaozhou

1. A prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong, China.
   • 2020 December 21, “Private firm Huaying to build 6 million T LNG terminal in southern China”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 21 December 2020, Energy & Environment:

     Located in the port city Chaozhou in Guangdong province, the project involves a first phase investment of 8 billion yuan ($1.22 billion) and is expected to start operations in 2023, according to state-backed China News and Chaozhou city government-backed Chaozhou News on Monday.

2. Alternative form of Teochew (“dialect of Min Nan Chinese”)
   • 1999, Zhiming Bao, “Tonal Contour and Register Harmony in Chaozhou”, in Linguistic Inquiry, DOI:10.1162/002438999554165:

     Chaozhou has eight citation tones, as follows: […]

   • 2015, Chua, J. K., “Cultivating Gratitude: The Seven Signs from Heaven”, in Pebbles in the Pond: Transforming the World One Person at a Time, Wave Four‎, →ISBN, OCLC 913537222, page 52:

     During my grandparents’ generation and the generation before, most of the clansmen were illiterate, but they were deeply religious and followed traditional ways. They spoke the Chaozhou (Teochew) dialect and were originally from the Chenghai district of the city of Shantou, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China.

3. An urban township in Pingtung, Taiwan
   • [2022 June 19, Chung, Jake, “Name of new TRA depot must reflect location: Su”, in Taipei Times‎, archived from the original on 18 June 2022:

     At the new Kaohsiung Railway Workshop Depot, which was relocated to Pingtung’s Chaojhou Township (潮州), only 18 workers are needed to service a train within just 40 minutes, Su said.]

• (from Teochew) Teochew
• (from Cantonese) Chiuchow
• Chaochowfu