Wuxue

English

Alternative forms

• Wusueh
• Wu-hsüeh, Wu-hsueh, Wuhsueh (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武穴 (Wǔxué).

Proper noun

Wuxue

1. A county-level city in Huanggang, Hubei, China.
   • 1994 March, Michael Buckley, Alan Samagalski, Robert Storey, Chris Taylor, Clem Lindenmayer, “Hubei”, in China (Lonely Planet)‎^[2], 4th edition, Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 340:

     Heading downriver on leaving Wuhan, the steamer passes through Huangshi in eastern Hubei Province. […] Near the border with Jiangxi on the north bank is the town of Wuxue, noted for the production of bamboo goods.

   • 1998, Hong-Juan Wu, Yong-Tai Lin, Han-Yun Yang, Yue-Hua Wan, Qin Zhang, “Adapting Integrated Fish Farming Principles to Improve Fish Yields in Meicuan Reservoir, China”, in Jack A. Mathias, Anthony T. Charles, Hu Baotong, editors, Integrated Fish Farming: Proceedings of a Workshop on Integrated Fish Farming held in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China, October 11-15, 1994‎^[3], CRC Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 309:

     Meicuan Reservoir, impounded in 1958, is located at Meicuan town, Wuxue City, Hubei Province. It lies north of the midstream section of the Yangtze River (115°30' E and 30°17' N).

   • 2006 October 13, Caroline Bailey, “China's full-time computer gamers”, in BBC News‎^[4], archived from the original on 2007-02-05‎^[5]:

     In a scruffy apartment building down a muddy back alley in the provincial town of Wuxue in Hubei Province, one of China's newest industries is taking off.

   • 2009, Victoria Chu, “Wu, Dingfu (吴定福 b. 1946)”, in Wenxian Zhang, Ilan Alon, editors, Biographical Dictionary of New Chinese Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders [中国经济风云人物]‎^[6], Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 195:

     After graduating from Hubei University with a specialization in Chinese language and literature, Wu Dingfu, a native of Wuxue City, Hubei Province, worked as a teacher in Wuxue Middle School in Guangji County from 1969 to 1980.

   • 2018 November 12, Dominique Patton, “China confirms African swine fever outbreak in Hubei province”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 2018-11-13, Health News‎^[8]:

     China’s agricultural ministry said on Tuesday it had confirmed an outbreak of African swine fever in central Hubei province.
     The disease was found to have killed six of a combined 147 pigs on two neighboring farms in Wuxue city, the ministry said.

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

Translations

county-level city in Hubei

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 武穴 (mou⁵ jyut⁶)

  Mandarin: 武穴 (zh) (Wǔxué)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuxue”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 2
• Wuxue, Wusueh, Wuhsueh, Wu-hsueh at Google Ngram Viewer