Quzhou

See also: qūzhóu, Qúzhōu, and Qǔzhōu

English
Map including QUZHOU (NIMA, 1996)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 衢州 (Qúzhōu).

Proper noun

Quzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China.
    • [1901, “Native Account of the Situation”, in The Boxer Rising: A History of the Boxer Trouble in China‎, Second edition, Shanghai Mercury, Ltd., OCLC 8951867, page 60:
      In Chuchow in the south-west of Chekiang, as we learn from a Shaoshing letter, rebel soldiers have, before the arrival of the soldiers sent by the Governor, killed the magistrate of Sian city named Wu.]
    • 2013 July 9, “Pilot of crashed Asiana plane still in Boeing 777 training”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 11 July 2013:
      The two dead girls, Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, were friends from the Jiangshan Middle School in Quzhou, in the prosperous eastern coastal province of Zhejiang.

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