Xinzhou

English

Alternative forms

• Hsin-chou (Wade–Giles)

Pronunciation

• enPR: shĭnʹjōʹ

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 忻州 (Xīnzhōu).

Proper noun

Xinzhou

1. A prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China.
   • 2020 March 5, Yi-Ling Liu, “How a Dating App Helped a Generation of Chinese Come Out of the Closet”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-06, Feature‎^[2]:

     Like many gay Chinese growing up at the turn of the millennium, Duan Shuai began his long, deliberate process of coming out online. After school, he would visit the newly opened internet cafe in his hometown, Xinzhou, a small city in Shanxi Province bounded by a veil of mountains. […]
     When Duan opens up the app anywhere in the country, be it in Beijing’s bustling commercial district Sanlitun or back in Xinzhou, he’ll find an endless scroll of users: cosmopolitan yuppies dressed in drag, rural blue-collar workers with faceless profiles.

Translations

city in Shanxi, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 忻州 (jan¹ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 忻州 (zh) (Xīnzhōu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xinzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3504, column 3

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 信州 (Xìnzhōu).

Proper noun

Xinzhou

1. A district of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
   • 2021 November 14, Austin Ramzy, “A video of decontamination workers clubbing a pet corgi stirs anger in China.”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 November 2021, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     The vague wording of the Xinzhou district government’s statement Saturday, which said workers had “decontaminated” the animal though there was no indication it had been infected with the coronavirus, helped fuel the outcry.
     The pet’s owner or owners could not be reached for comment. According to an account on the Twitter-like platform Weibo that first shared the video, the owners had been sent to hotel quarantine along with other residents of their neighborhood in the city of Shangrao, in Jiangxi Province.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 信州 (zh) (Xìnzhōu)

Etymology 3

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新洲 (Xīnzhōu).

Alternative forms

• Sinchow

Proper noun

Xinzhou

1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
   • 2022 January 25, “Photographing China: Farmers busy harvesting lotus roots in Wuhan”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[6], archived from the original on 2022-01-25:

     Deep in winter, farmers of a specialized cooperative are busy uprooting and gathering lotus roots in muddy water covering some 500 acres in Zhangduhu Street, Xinzhou District, Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province.

Translations

district in Hubei, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 新洲 (san¹ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 新洲 (zh) (Xīnzhōu)