Onsu

English

Etymology

From Uyghur ئونسۇ (onsu).

Proper noun

Onsu

1. A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China
   • 2007, Ildikó Bellér-Hann, editor, Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia‎^[1], Ashgate, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159:

     Qirmish Ata Mazar is located in a mountain valley 61 km west of Onsu county town, in Aqsu prefecture.

   • 2009 October 10, “Human Rights”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report 2009‎^[2], Congressional-Executive Commission on China, page 130:

     The Wensu (Onsu) county government in Aqsu district reported taking steps to monitor returnees from pilgrimages in order to “place them in the ‘line of vision’ of the government and Party committee” and “understand” the activities they participated in while abroad.

   • 2010, J. Todd Reed, Diana Raschke, The ETIM: China's Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat‎^[3], Praeger, →OCLC, page 149:

     In December 1994, Abudumijit Muhammatkelim organized a terrorist group with himself as the head, which plotted acts of violence and terror with purchased and homemade weapons and ammunition. He directed his followers to commit a robbery on February 10, 1996, in Onsu County of Xinjiang, which involved the gun killing of two policemen and a herdsman.

   • 2014, Michael Dillon, Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century‎^[4], Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197:

     Units of the 5th Division of the 2nd Army also marched in from Yanqi, and, on 29 December 1949, arrived in Onsu (Wensu) County in Aksu Prefecture.

   • 2019, Olsi Jazexhi, “What can the Muslim world do to save the Uighurs and Islam in China?”, in Daily Sabah‎^[5]:

     On Aug. 20, our hosts sent us to the city of Aksu to visit the Onsu County Vocational Skills Training Center. Here we were supposed to meet the “extremists and terrorists” whom China was “deradicalizing.”

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

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Wensu, Wen-su, Wensuh

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溫宿／温宿 (zh) (Wēnsù)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: ئونسۇ (onsu)

See also

• Zhetysu, Aksu, Kizilsu

Further reading

• Onsu, Wensu at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wensu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3436, column 2

Anagrams

• Osun, Suon, UNOS, Unos, nous, onus, ouns