Aqqik

English

Alternative forms

• Achchiq

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur ئاچچىق (achchiq).

Proper noun

Aqqik

1. A township in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1991, Tamio Kotaka, Shallow Tethys 3: Proceedings of the International Symposium‎^[1], →OCLC, pages 235, 236:

     Within the Tarim Basin, they reach to the Aqqik area, and Magartag in the central region.[...]the Tarim gulf was very wide, and seawater extended northward to Yingan of Akesu, and Xiaokuzibai of Wensu and possibly eastward to Aqqik of Luopu.

   • 1996, Zhou Zhiyi, W. T. Dean, editors, Phanerozoic Geology of Northwest China‎^[2], Beijing: Science Press, →OCLC, page 125:

     In the course of marine incursion and sedimentation, the sea only reached the Wuqia area during the late Eocene, but in Palaeocene - middle Eocene, marine conditions extended eastwards into the desert of the Mazartag area, and southwards, probably into the Aqqik area of Lop.

2. A township in Yopurga, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Aqike, A-ch’i-k’o

Translations

township in Lop, Hotan, Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿其克 (Āqíkè)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: ئاچچىق (achchiq)