Sanju

English

Map including Sanju (Sang-chu) (DMA, 1984)

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur سانجۇ (sanju).

Proper noun

Sanju

1. A town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a township.
   • 1870, G. W. Hayward, “Journey from Leh to Yarkand and Kashgar, and Exploration of the Sources of the Yarkand River”, in Journal of the Royal Geographic Society‎^[1], volume 40, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 67:

     As we were to cross this range by the pass leading into Sanju, we continued down the valley to Mazar Badshah Abubekr, 19 miles below Shadula, where the road to the Sanju Pass leaves the Karakash Valley, and ascends up a very confined ravine leading to the pass.

   • 1876, Thomas Edward Gordon, The Roof of the World‎^[2], Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 36:

     The Hakim of Guma visited the Mission as it passed through a portion of his district between Sanju and Kargalik. In a present of game sent by him we saw for the first time the "Shaw" pheasant, which to the ordinary eye looks exactly like our own home bird. We heard of ibex on the heights above Sanju, but were unable to go out after them.

   • 2018 May 18, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Popular Uyghur Singer’s Whereabouts Unknown, Believed Detained in Xinjiang Re-Education Camp”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[3], archived from the original on May 22, 2018:

     But a police officer in Guma’s Chawda township acknowledged that authorities in Ayup’s nearby home township of Sanju had briefly detained him there at the end of last year.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sanju.
2. A mountain pass in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1870, G. W. Hayward, “Journey from Leh to Yarkand and Kashgar, and Exploration of the Sources of the Yarkand River”, in Journal of the Royal Geographic Society‎^[4], volume 40, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 67:

     As we were to cross this range by the pass leading into Sanju, we continued down the valley to Mazar Badshah Abubekr, 19 miles below Shadula, where the road to the Sanju Pass leaves the Karakash Valley, and ascends up a very confined ravine leading to the pass.

   • 1923, Ghulam Rassul Galwan, Aksakal of Leh, Servant of Sahibs‎^[5], Cambridge, England: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., →OCLC, page 265:

     The next day we started up toward the pass. The Sanju is a well-known bad pass. There was much bad ice, but for us get good luck over it, by kindly of snow.

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

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Sangzhu, Sang-chu

Translations

town in Pishan, Hotan, Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桑株 (Sāngzhū)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: سانجۇ (sanju)

Anagrams

• Janus, Sunja