Zhoukoudian

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 周口店 (Zhōukǒudiàn).

Proper noun

Zhoukoudian

  1. An area in Fangshan district, Beijing, China.
    • [1975, Chia, Lan-po, The Cave Home of Peking Man‎, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, OCLC 966103764, page 7:
      In the more remote past, 450 million years ago, the Choukoutien area was part of a sea as the presence there of Ordovician limestone proves.]

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References
  1. “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, LCCN 79-42627, OCLC 781411242, pages 476, 477: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […]
    Chou-k'ou-tien (Zhoukoudian) 周口店”
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