Ganzhou

English

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 贛州／赣州 (Gànzhōu).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌɡɑnˈd͡ʒoʊ/

Proper noun

Ganzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city in Jiangxi, China.
    • 1990, Mao, Zedong, Roger Thompson, transl., Report from Xunwu‎, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 89-21776, OCLC 924294101, OL 2200194M, page 71:
      Most leather pillows, letter paper, envelopes, enamelware, fans, and water pipes come from Ganzhou and are of the highest quality. The stationery from Ganzhou is made of paper manufactured in China; that from Mei County is made with foreign paper.
    • 2016 February 10, “China reports first case of imported Zika virus”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 31 May 2022:
      The man from the southern city of Ganzhou had been treated in Venezuela on Jan. 28 before returning home on Feb. 5 via Hong Kong and the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said in a statement.

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