Lushi

See also: lùshì and lǜshī

English

Alternative forms

• Lu-shih (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 盧氏／卢氏 (Lúshì).

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo͞oʹshûʹ

Proper noun

Lushi

1. A county of Sanmenxia, Henan, China.
   • 2007, Qinglian He, “Media Control in China”, in Sharon Hom, Stacy Mosher, editors, Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change‎^[2], The New Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 39:

     Damage Control
     On August 10, 2001, the weekend edition of Gongren Ribao (Workers’ Daily) in Lushi County, Henan Province, published a long lead story exposing redundant and extravagant projects pursued by the county Party secretary.

   • 2015 September 8, Alice Yan, “Royal aspirations: fake Chinese Qing dynasty princess jailed after 2.3 million yuan scam”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], archived from the original on 16 December 2015:

     Wang Fengying, 48, told her victims she was Princess Changping, a descendant of China’s Aisin Gioro, the family name of the Manchu emperors that ruled the country during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the Huashang Daily reported.
     Yet in reality she was just an unemployed farmer from Lushi county, in Henan province.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lushi.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盧氏／卢氏 (zh) (Lúshì)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lushi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1808, column 1

Anagrams

• Shuli, hilus