Ch'u-hsiung

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 楚雄 (Chǔxióng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻu³-hsiung².

Proper noun

Ch'u-hsiung

1. Alternative form of Chuxiong
   • 1947, Joseph F. Rock, The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China‎^[1], volume 1, Harvard University Press, pages 19–20:

     The town of Ch’u-hsiung is walled, rather long, and possesses about 15,000 inhabitants. In the Han dynasty Ch'u-hsiung belonged to the territory of I Chou.

   • 1962, Chung-li Chang, The Income of the Chinese Gentry‎^[2], Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 235:

     Sung Yung-hsi of Ch’u-hsiung was a government student during the Chia-ch’ing period.

   • 1966 [1637], Ying-Hsing Sung, “The Metals”, in E-Tu Zen Sun, Shiou-Chuan Sun, transl., Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century: T'ien-kung K'ai-wu‎^[3], Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, published 1997, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 238, 241:

     Most of the Yunnan silver is produced in Ch’u-hsiung, Yung-ch’ang, and Ta-li, with Ch’ü-ching and Yao-an ranking second, followed by Chen-yuan. […] At Ch’u-hsiung, a different method is used. Because of the low lead content of the local ore, lead is purchased from other places for the purpose of smelting.