Zigui

• (postal romanization) Tzekwei
• (from Wade–Giles) Tzukuei, Tzu-kuei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 秭歸／秭归 (Zǐguī).

• IPA^(key): /ˌ(d)zɪˈɡweɪ/

Zigui

1. A county of Yichang, Hubei, China.
   • 1998, Li Boning, “Acknowledgments from "General Plan for Population Resettlements"”, in The River Dragon Has Come! The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People‎, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, LCCN 97-23982, OCLC 37277493, OL 8054352M, page 168:

     He visited the experimental rice paddy plot in Zigui County and watched a video titled “The Advantages of Developmental Population Resettlement.”

   • 2002, Deirdre Chetham, Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges‎, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, LCCN 2002016939, OCLC 474470844, OL 8400279M, page 168:

     The Three Gorges have always been one geographic entity, but rarely a political one, a situation that has affected the overall development of the region, leaving Badong and Zigui counties cut off administratively and culturally from the Sichuan towns to the west and physically, by the hazards of Xiling Gorge, from Yichang and the rest of Hubei to the east.

   • 2007, Raynor Shaw, Three Gorges of the Yangtze River: Chongqing to Wuhan‎, →ISBN, OCLC 1028414295, OL 9160310M, page 29:

     By way of illustration, the Xintan landslide in Zigui County blocked the Yangzi River on two significant occasions in 1030 and 1542, obstructing navigation for 21 and 82 years respectively.