Tso-yün

See also: Tsoyun

English

Map including TSO-YÜN (upper right) (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 左雲／左云 (Zuǒyún) Wade–Giles romanization: Tso³-yün².

Proper noun

Tso-yün

1. Alternative form of Zuoyun
   • 1901, Marshall Broomhall, quoting Mr. Mills, Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission‎^[1], →OCLC, →OL, page 146:

     At Tso-yün he arrived in time to see the Mission house there in flames.

   • 1991, Eduard B. Vermeer, Chinese Local History: Stone Inscriptions From Fukien In The Sung To Ch'ing Periods‎^[2], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 132:

     Ma Chien-chi 馬建奇 has been mentioned as a Muslim in D.D. Leslie, Islamic Literature in Chinese, Canberra 1981, p. 32. He was a native of Tso-yün 左雲 in Shansi, who had become a Metropolitan Graduate in 1733.

   • 2011, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, edited by William H. Nienhauser, Jr., The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume IX: The Memoirs of Han China‎^[3], volume II, published 2019, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 186:

     At this, the Shan-yü, leading over 100,000 horsemen through the fortifications, entered at the fortification of Wu-chou 武州.⁷³[...]
     ⁷³A county seat located in the center of Yen-men Commandery, south of modern Tso-yün 左雲 in Shansi (T'an Ch'i-hsiang, 2:17).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tso-yün.

Translations

Zuoyun — see Zuoyun

Anagrams

• Younts, snouty, soy nut, soynut