Tzukuei

See also: Tzu-kuei

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 秭歸秭归 (Zǐguī) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ³-kuei¹.

Proper noun

Tzukuei

  1. Alternative form of Zigui
    • 1961, Chinese Literature [中国文学], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, page 109:
      This strech of Yangtse, so hard to navigate, is the subject of many beautiful legends. Eleven-fifteen brings us to Tzukuei, said to be the home of the poet Chu Yuan.
    • 1977, “The Three Gorges”, in China Pictorial, number 9, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 1:
      The 76-km-long Hsiling Gorge, from Hsianghsi in Tzukuei County to Nantsinkuan, was noted for its treacherous shoals.
    • 2016, Red Pine, Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past, Copper Canyon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page :
      Twenty minutes later, I arrived in Tzukuei.
      It should have been called New Tzukuei. The original Tzukuei was underwater thirty kilometers upstream on the other side of the river.

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