Zibo

English

Alternative forms

• Tzepo
• Tzu-po (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 淄博 (Zībó).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌ(d)zɪˈboʊ/

Proper noun

Zibo

1. A prefecture-level city in central Shandong, China.
   • [1977 June, Rewi Alley, “Shantung Spring”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[1], volume XVI, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29, column 1:

     Industry in Tsinan is becoming highly developed. Indeed the day we set out to go west, factories on the outskirts were interspersed with fields of wheat, and everywhere on, into and through the Tzupo municipality, wheat fields were interspersed by factories. Tzupo with its five divisions which roughly correspond to five counties, has 2,000,000 people now, 550,000 of them mostly factory workers in the town portions, and the rest commune farmers who cultivate 93,330 hectares of land, all but 26,667 hectares of hills and downs irrigated.]

   • 2015 August 22, Dan Levin, “Blast at Chemical Site Jangles Frayed Nerves”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 24, 2015, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     The explosion on Saturday, which tore through a chemical plant in Zibo, in Shandong Province, killed one person and injured at least nine others, according to the official Xinhua news agency. A microblog post by the Zibo Public Security Bureau late Saturday said the fire had been “basically controlled” and that the injured had been taken to a hospital.

Translations

a city of China

• Arabic: زِيبُو m (zibū)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淄博 (zh) (Zībó)

• French: Zibo (fr)
• Hungarian: Cepo (hu)
• Japanese: 淄博 (しはく, Shihaku)
• Korean: 쯔보 (Jjeubo), 치박 (Chibak)
• Russian: Цзыбо́ m (Czybó)
• Vietnamese: Truy Bác

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zibo”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3567, column 3