Kawak
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Uyghur كاۋاك (kawak).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kawak
- A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
- 2020 February, Adrian Zenz, “The Karakax List: Dissecting the Anatomy of Beijing’s Internment Drive in Xinjiang”, in Journal of Political Risk[1], volume 8, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 February 2020:
- Finally, a spreadsheet from Kawak (喀瓦克) Township in the northern part of Karakax County that lists 1,249 persons in detention and re-education shows that 93.2 percent of persons who are classified as “untrustworthy” are either in detention or re-education.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kawak.
Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Kawake
Translations
township in Karakax, Hotan, Xinjiang, China