Wenzhou
See also: Wēnzhōu
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- Wenchow (dated)
- (from Wade–Giles) Wen-chou, Wen-Chou
Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 溫州/温州 (Wēnzhōu).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Wenzhou
- A prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, in southeastern China.
- 2016 December 26, Sui-Lee Wee, “China Reassures Homeowners Worried About Land Rights”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-12-26, Business[3]:
- The issue of land ownership rights came into focus in Wenzhou in April after the local government demanded that homeowners whose land-use rights had expired after 20 years pay fees of up to a third of the value of their homes before they could sell their apartments. The decision provoked protests from property owners in Wenzhou, a coastal city of eight million that was one of the first to set up private enterprise after the government opened up the economy in the late 1970s.
- 2023 September 2, “Super typhoon Saola leaves trail of destruction in southern China”, in EFE[4], archived from the original on 28 December 2023:
- Saola is not the only storm threatening China this weekend, as Haikui, a second Pacific typhoon, is expected to make landfall on Sunday in eastern China, south of the city of Wenzhou, the US Embassy in Beijing said in a weather alert.
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city in China
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References edit
- ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 486: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Wen-chou (Wenzhou) 溫州”
Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wenzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3436, column 2
- “Wenzhou”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Wenzhou, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- Wenzhou, Wenchow, Wen-chou, Wen-Chou, Wenchou at Google Ngram Viewer
- “Wenzhou, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Wenzhou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Wenzhou”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Wenzhou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.