Zhuzhou

• (dated) Chuchow
• (from Wade–Giles) Chu-chou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 株洲 (Zhūzhōu).

• IPA^(key): /ˌd͡ʒuːˈd͡ʒoʊ/

Zhuzhou

1. A prefecture-level city in Hunan, China.
   • [1974 August 5, Green, Peter, “The Big-Character Posters on the Walls of China”, in Intercontinental Press‎, volume 12, number 30, ISSN 0162-5594, OCLC 4175202, page 1075, columns 2, 3:

     A June 27 Hsinhua report tells how 8,000 young people have been successfully "settled" and "re-educated" on the outskirts of Chuchou, a city in Hunan province. Success was achieved in this task because "the Chuchou municipal committee of the Chinese Communist party raised its consciousness of the struggle between the two lines during the great movement to criticize Lin Piao and rectify the style of work."]

   • [1978, Doing Business with the People's Republic of China: Industries and Markets‎, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, LCCN 78-2539, OCLC 3705954, page 280:

     In the 1960s it was reported that Chinese uranium ore was only partly processed at the Chuchou Uranium Processing Plant in Hunan Province and was then sent to Czechoslovakia for further concentration.]