Tsao-chuang
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 棗莊/枣庄 (Zǎozhuāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsao³-chuang¹.[1]
Pronunciation
- enPR: dzouʹjwängʹ
Proper noun
Tsao-chuang
- Alternative form of Zaozhuang
- 1964, “SHANTUNG”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 20, →OCLC, page 472:
- The mining development at Tsao-chuang is one of the largest and most mechanized in China.
- 1972 December, Hsiao Wen, “China's new discoveries of ancient treasures”, in The UNESCO Courier, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:
- In 1969, two peasants from Tsao-chuang in Shantung province unearthed the official seal of Han Linerh, a leader of the Red Kerchief rebels formed in 1368 during the peasants’ revolt, before the fall of the Yuan dynasty.
- 1986, John K. Fairbank, Albert Feuerwerker, The Cambridge History of China, volume 13, Cambridge University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 768:
- Then in early January 1947, Communist units retreating from northern Kiangsu joined with others from central Shantung to counter-attack their pursuers at Tsao-chuang in southern Shantung.
Translations
Zaozhuang — see Zaozhuang
References
- Zaozhuang, Wade-Giles romanization Tsao-chuang, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsaochwang or Tsao-chuang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1951, column 3
- “Tsao-chuang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Tsao-chuang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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