Wuchuan

See also: Wúchuān and Wu-ch'uan

English

Alternative forms

• Wu-ch'uan (Wade–Giles)

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo͞oʹchwänʹ

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 吳川／吴川 (Wúchuān).

Proper noun

Wuchuan

1. A county-level city in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
   • 1981 December 12, Michael Weisskopf, “3,000 Chinese Veterans Said to Revolt in Protest Over Treatment”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 December 2023‎^[3]:

     Zheng Ming emphasized the frustration of veterans in describing the background of the July revolt in Wuchuan (formerly Meilu), a poor coastal town of 40,000 in Guangdong Province less than 300 miles west of Hong Kong. […]
     Finally on July 1 while the Communist Party was celebrating its 60th anniversary, more than 3,000 members of the brigade stormed Wuchuan, smashing file cabinets and document drawers in government offices.

Translations

city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吳川／吴川 (zh) (Wúchuān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 武川 (Wǔchuān).

Proper noun

Wuchuan

1. A county of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China.
   • 1937, “News Summary”, in Philippine Magazine‎^[4], volume XXXIV, number 1, →OCLC, page 54:

     Fifteen hundred Chinese bandits comprising one the principal bodies of the irregular forces invading Suiyuan, surrender to Chinese government forces near Wuchuan after a mutiny against their leader, Wang Ying.

   • 2011 June 17, “Vestas says wins 49 MW turbine order in China”, in Mike Nesbit, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 2023-07-04, Green Business News‎^[6]:

     The turbines would be installed at Dayuanshan wind farm in Wuchuan County in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, it said.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 武川 (zh) (Wǔchuān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 3

From Mandarin 婺川, later 務川／务川.

Proper noun

Wuchuan

1. An autonomous county of Zunyi, Guizhou, China.
   • 2007, John E. Herman, “Mu'ege During the Yuan-Ming Transition”, in Amid the Clouds and Mist: China’s Colonization of Guizhou, 1200–1700 (Harvard East Asian Monographs), number 293, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95:

     In Chinese texts the first mention of the Tian of Sizhou occurs in 1107, when a native chief (tuqiu) named Tian Yougong submitted to Song rule; in 1118 he was named head of Sizhou prefecture.⁵¹
     Throughout the Tang and Song dynasties the administrative seat of Sizhou prefecture was located near the present-day city of Wuchuan in northern Guizhou, yet the geopolitical jurisdiction of Sizhou extended far south, to the modern cities of Zhenyuan, Taijiang, and Cengong.

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuchuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 1
• Wuchuan, Wu-ch'uan, Wu-chuan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.