Kizilsu

See also: Kizil Su

English

Map including Kizilsu He (a river name near 15⁰ on the map) (DMA, 1989)

Etymology

Borrowed from Kyrgyz كىزىلسۋ / Кызылсуу (Kızılsuu, “red water”). Uyghur قىزىلسۇ (qizilsu).

Proper noun

Kizilsu

1. A Kirgiz autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang, China.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kizilsu.
   • 1979, Donald H. McMillen, Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang, 1949-1977‎^[1], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 45:

     On August 21, the Southern Xinjiang Administrative Office was established at Kazgar, with jurisdiction over the Aksu, Kazgar, Xiache, and Hetian Special Districts and the newly established Kizilsu A.Z. and Tash Kurghan A.X.

   • 1985, 《中国手册》编辑委员会, translated by Chen Zhucai, 社会生活 (《中国手册》)‎^[2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 61:

     The Kirgizs. This nationality has a population of 113,999, of which about 80 per cent live in close communities in the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in the southwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

   • 1990 April 23, “Beijing Reports 22 Deaths In Revolt in Western Region”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

     Xinjiang provincial television said in a broadcast from Urumqi, the regional capital, that a revolt by a "small number of ruffians" was put down in the town of Baren in the Kizilsu Kirghiz autonomous prefecture on April 5 and 6.

   • 1996, Michael Dillon, China's Muslims‎^[4], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10:

     The semi-nomadic Kyrgyz are spread throughout western and southern Xinjiang, but there is a significant concentration in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, set in the foothills of the Tianshan range which separates them from their kin in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. Most Kyrgyz are herdsmen, tending flocks of sheep and camels and, like the Kazakhs, they moved their animals across the mountains according to the season until the Sino-Soviet dispute closed the border. Their language and customs are closely related to those of their Kazakh neighbours.

   • 2016, Alex Ryan, Beijing Red‎^[5], Crooked Lane Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 45:

     An awkward silence persisted in the corridor of level six of the Artux People’s Hospital in Kizilsu Prefecture until at last the lone woman in the group finally spoke.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Kezilesu, K'o-tzu-le-su, K'o-tzu-lo-su, (shortened) Kezhou
• Kizil-Su, Kizil Su
• Qïzïl Su, Qïzïl-Su, Qïzïl-su, Qizil Su
• Kyzyl-su

Translations

prefecture

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克孜勒蘇／克孜勒苏 (zh) (Kèzīlèsū)

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• Uyghur: قىزىلسۇ (qizilsu)

See also

• Other geographical terms with the -su (water/river) suffix: Aksu, Kyzyl-Suu (Kyrgyzstan), Onsu, Zhetysu
• Other geographical terms with the word 'kizil' (red): Kiziloy, Kizilto, Kizil Caves