Wen-chou
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: wǔnʹjōʹ
Proper noun
Wen-chou
- Alternative form of Wenzhou
- 2006, Mark Halperin, Out of the Cloister: Literati Perspectives on Buddhism in Sung China, 960-1279, Harvard University Asia Center, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 153:
- Many images accompanied the emperor's party in early 1130 when it fled Kiangnan by sea and took refuge in Wen-chou, on the Chekiang coast.
Translations
Wenzhou — see Wenzhou
References
- Wenzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Wen-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 486: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Wen-chou (Wenzhou) 溫州”
Further reading
- “Wen-chou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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