Kawak

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur كاۋاك (kawak).

Proper noun

Kawak

1. A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 2016 October 14, Liu Xin, “Xinjiang kids look to score on their own field of dreams”, in China Daily‎^[1], archived from the original on October 14, 2016:

     "They realized that soccer can broaden their children's horizons," said Parhat, who teaches Chinese and math at the primary school in Kawak village in Moyu county. He established the school soccer team in 2006, training the young players after class. To date, 40 boys have played in the team, and in the past 10 years, more than 200 students have joined training sessions.

   • 2020 February, Adrian Zenz, “The Karakax List: Dissecting the Anatomy of Beijing’s Internment Drive in Xinjiang”, in Journal of Political Risk‎^[2], volume 8, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 17, 2020:

     Finally, a spreadsheet from Kawak (喀瓦克) Township in the northern part of Karakax County that lists 1,249 persons in detention and re-education shows that 93.2 percent of persons who are classified as “untrustworthy” are either in detention or re-education.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kawak.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Kawake

Translations

township in Karakax, Hotan, Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 喀瓦克 (Kāwǎkè)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: كاۋاك (kawak)

Anagrams

• Kakwa