Muji

See also: muji, mǔjī, mùjī, mùjí, Mùjí, and mùjì

English

Map including Muji in Kizilsu Prefecture (DMA, 1989)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Uyghur مۇجى (muji).

Proper noun

Muji

  1. A town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
    • 2016 November 22, Eset Sulaiman, Brooks Boliek., “In China’s Xinjiang, Some Uyghurs are Forced Into a Sharecropper’s Life”, in Eset Sulaiman, Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on November 23, 2016:
      A teacher in Muji Township in Guma backed up the police officer.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Muji.
  2. A township in Akto, Kizilsu, Xinjiang, China
    • 1998, John S. King, Bradley Mayhew, Karakoram Highway (Lonely Planet), 3rd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 126:
      The corridor north-west to Muji and south to the Pakistan border is a pamir valley, the Sarykol Valley.
    • 2016 November 27, “Rescue work goes smoothly in quake-hit Xinjiang county”, in Yao Lan, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on 31 January 2020:
      A damaged house is seen in Muji village, Akto County of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 26, 2016. About 130 herdsmen from Akto County, hit by a 6.7-magnitude earthquake Friday night, have been evacuated to a safer place, said local sources on Saturday.[...]
      As of 6:50 am, another 100 tents, 300 quilts, 300 coats, 200 bags of flour, 200 tonnes of coal, small generators and flashlights reached Muji, where a villager was killed by a collapsed house.
    • 2017 April 12, Eset Sulaiman, Roseanne Gerin, “Authorities Urge Kyrgyz Herdsmen to Spy on Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on April 17, 2017:
      Authorities are promoting the letter mainly in villages in border areas, such as Muji and Bulungkol in Akto (in Chinese, Aketao) county, he said.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Muji.
  3. A village in Muji, Akto, Kizilsu, Xinjiang, China
Synonyms
Translations

Proper noun

Muji

  1. Alternative form of Moji (language)

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

“Winner, beater”, from muj (be able, can, win over, beat), Gheg variant of standard mund.

Proper noun

Muji m

  1. a male given name
  2. (mythology) Muji, a mythological hero found in the Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors.

See also

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