Huoqiu

See also: huǒqiú and Huòqiū

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 霍邱 / 霍丘 (Huòqiū).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hwôʹchyōʹ[1]

Proper noun

Huoqiu

  1. A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
    • [1974 December, Chih-chang Chen, “Dry Hills into Water Country”, in China Reconstructs[2], volume XXIII, number 12, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 1:
      An example of success through relying on the masses was our problem of cutting a canal through Pingkang Hill in Huochiu county.]
    • 1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today[3], Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:
      One phase of Maoist land reconstruction policy for which nobody now has a good word to say is the reclamation of lakes. In Huoqiu county in western Anhui, Chengxi Lake was partly reclaimed, reducing its area by two-thirds and its capacity of 700 million cu m by nine-tenths. As a direct result, the lake could no longer accommodate the flood waters resulting from heavy rain, and flood danger in the whole area was sharply increased.
    • 2018 July 9, Gao Feng, “Officials in China's Anhui Target Xi Jinping Critic For 'Psychiatric Treatment'”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia[4], archived from the original on 09 July 2018[5]:
      Lu Qianrong was visited in his home in Linshui township, Huoqiu county by a group of officials from the local government, as well as higher-ranking officials from nearby Changzhou city, he told RFA on Monday.
    • [2001, “Tai, Ching-nung [臺靜農]”, in Highlights from the Permanent Collection [北美館二〇〇一 : 典藏常設展]‎[6], Taipei Fine Arts Museum, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:
      Tai, Ching-nung was born in Huochiu in Anhui province.]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Huoqiu.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hwokiu or Huo-ch’iu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 819, column 3

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