Zhaotong
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 昭通 (Zhāotōng).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Zhaotong
- A prefecture-level city in Yunnan, China.
- [1977 November 27, “Guerrilla activities”, in Free China Weekly[3], volume XVIII, number 47, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:
- 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[4], archived from the original on 03 August 2014[5]:
- 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
References
- ^ “China”, in The New Encyclopedia Britannica[1], 15th edition, volume 16, 1995, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42, columns 1, 2: “Conventional/Wade-Giles Pinyin […] Chao-t'ung.......Zhaotong”
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chaotung or Chao-t’ung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 371, column 3
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhaotong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], 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.