Huoqiu

See also: huǒqiú and Huòqiū

English

Alternative forms

• Huo-ch'iu (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 霍邱／霍丘 (Huòqiū).

Proper noun

Huoqiu

1. A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
   • [1974 December, Chih-chang Chen, “Dry Hills into Water Country”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], volume XXIII, number 12, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 1:

     An example of success through relying on the masses was our problem of cutting a canal through Pingkang Hill in Huochiu county.]

   • 1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today‎^[2], Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:

     One phase of Maoist land reconstruction policy for which nobody now has a good word to say is the reclamation of lakes. In Huoqiu county in western Anhui, Chengxi Lake was partly reclaimed, reducing its area by two-thirds and its capacity of 700 million cu m by nine-tenths. As a direct result, the lake could no longer accommodate the flood waters resulting from heavy rain, and flood danger in the whole area was sharply increased.

   • 2018 July 9, Gao Feng, “Officials in China's Anhui Target Xi Jinping Critic For 'Psychiatric Treatment'”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia‎^[3], archived from the original on 09 July 2018‎^[4]:

     Lu Qianrong was visited in his home in Linshui township, Huoqiu county by a group of officials from the local government, as well as higher-ranking officials from nearby Changzhou city, he told RFA on Monday.

   • [2001, “Tai, Ching-nung [臺靜農]”, in Highlights from the Permanent Collection [北美館二〇〇一 : 典藏常設展]‎^[5], Taipei Fine Arts Museum, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:

     Tai, Ching-nung was born in Huochiu in Anhui province.]

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 霍邱 (zh) (Huòqiū)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huoqiu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1337, column 3