Chao-t'ung
English
editEtymology
editFrom Mandarin 昭通 (Zhāotōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chao¹-tʻung¹.
Proper noun
editChao-t'ung
- Alternative form of Zhaotong
- 1897, Alexander Hosie, “Preface to the Second Edition”, in Three Years in Western China[1], 2nd edition, London: George Philip & Son, →OCLC, →OL, page xvii:
- Although Kuei-chow drew seven piculs of prepared tobacco, and Chao-t’ung, the northern prefecture of Yün-nan, took four pieces of T cloths and 14½ piculs of tobacco from Mêng-tzŭ, I see no reason to alter what I wrote eight years ago in the concluding paragraph of Chapter XII.
- 1943, L. Carrington Goodrich, A Short History of the Chinese People[2], Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, →OL, page 60:
- There are also indications that Buddhism appeared in south China; a stone sculpture thought to have served as a pedestal for Buddhist figures and bearing a date equivalent to A.D. 83 was discovered at Chao-t’ung in Yunnan in 1937.
Translations
editZhaotong — see Zhaotong
Further reading
edit- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chaotung or Chao-t’ung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 371, column 3
- Chaotung, Chao-t'ung, Chao-tung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.