Tso-yün

See also: Tsoyun

English

Map including TSO-YÜN (upper right) (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 左雲左云 (Zuǒyún) Wade–Giles romanization: Tso³-yün².

Proper noun

Tso-yün

  1. Alternative form of Zuoyun
    • 1901, Marshall Broomhall, quoting Mr. Mills, Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission, →OCLC, →OL, page 146:
      At Tso-yün he arrived in time to see the Mission house there in flames.
    • 1991, Eduard B. Vermeer, Chinese Local History: Stone Inscriptions From Fukien In The Sung To Ch'ing Periods, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 132:
      Ma Chien-chi 馬建奇 has been mentioned as a Muslim in D.D. Leslie, Islamic Literature in Chinese, Canberra 1981, p. 32. He was a native of Tso-yün 左雲 in Shansi, who had become a Metropolitan Graduate in 1733.
    • 2011, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, edited by William H. Nienhauser, Jr., The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume IX: The Memoirs of Han China, volume II, published 2019, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 186:
      At this, the Shan-yü, leading over 100,000 horsemen through the fortifications, entered at the fortification of Wu-chou 武州.⁷³[...]
      ⁷³A county seat located in the center of Yen-men Commandery, south of modern Tso-yün 左雲 in Shansi (T'an Ch'i-hsiang, 2:17).
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tso-yün.

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