Urchi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur ئۇرچى (urchi).

Proper noun

Urchi

1. A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 2018 April 19, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Use ‘Burial Management Centers’ to Subvert Uyghur Funeral Traditions”, in Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[1], archived from the original on April 19, 2018:

     The head of Urchi township in Hotan’s Qaraqash (Moyu) county said she had heard “about a month ago” that a burial management center had been constructed and would be “opening soon.”

   • 2018 May 10, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Jail Uyghur Imam Who Took Son to Unsanctioned Religious School”, in Radio Free Asia‎^[2], archived from the original on May 10, 2018:

     Abduheber Ahmet, the imam of the Dongbagh Mosque in Urchi township, in Hotan’s Qaraqash (Moyu) county, was initially detained in May 2017 and handed a five and a half-year jail term a month later, the ruling Chinese Communist Party secretary of Urchi township told RFA’s Uyghur Service.

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

Translations

township in Karakax, Hotan, Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏爾其／乌尔其 (Wū'ěrqí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: ئۇرچى (urchi)

Anagrams

• Urich, chiru, churi