Liuzhou
See also: liùzhou
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 柳州 (Liǔzhōu).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌljoʊˈd͡ʒoʊ/
Proper noun
Liuzhou
- A prefecture-level city in north-central Guangxi autonomous region, China.
- [1979, Te-kong Tong w:Li Tsung-jen, “The Dragon Suppression War and My First Injury”, in The Memoirs of Li Tsung-jen (Studies of the East Asian Institute of Columbia University)[1], Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36:
- Even General Lin, an honest man, eventually became a victim of the age. During his old age he operated a small farm in Liuchou, Kwangsi. After the Communists took over the mainland in 1949, he was invited to become a member of the National Assembly, which he did. I cannot say that he was better off under the Communist regime, but at least he survived the crisis.]
- 2019 April 16, Yilei Sun, Norihiko Shirouzu, “No-frills no longer: GM's China brand Baojun attempts a major makeover”, in Reuters[2], archived from the original on 12 May 2022, Business News[3]:
- Employees work on Baojun RS-5 cars at a final assembly plant operated by General Motors Co and its local joint-venture partners in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, February 28, 2019.
Translations
a city of China
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Liuzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1757, column 2: “Sometimes spelled Liu-chou.”