Zhaotong

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Chao-t'ung
• Chaotung

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 昭通 (Zhāotōng).

Proper noun

Zhaotong

1. A prefecture-level city in Yunnan, China.
   • [1977 November 27, “Guerrilla activities”, in Free China Weekly‎^[2], volume XVIII, number 47, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     Military chieftains of three Communist "military regions" (Chengtu, Kunming and Canton) and five provincial “military districts” (Szechwon^{[sic – meaning Szechwan]}, Tibet, Yunnan, Kweichow and Kwangsi) held a joint conference last September in Chaotung, Yunnan, to discuss measures to be taken against the guerrilla forces.]

   • 2014 August 3, “Hundreds dead after quake strikes Yunnan province”, in France 24‎^[3], archived from the original on 03 August 2014:

     The US Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.1 quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres (6 miles) at around 8:30 a.m. (GMT).
     Most of the deaths were in Zhaotong City, the Xinhua state news agency reported.

Translations

prefecture-level city in China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 昭通 (zh) (Zhāotōng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhaotong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3562, column 3
• Zhaotong, Chaotung, Chao-t'ung, Chao-tung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.