Wuxiang

See also: wǔxiāng and wùxiàng

English

Alternative forms

• Wuhsiang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武鄉／武乡 (Wǔxiāng).

Proper noun

Wuxiang

1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
   • [1983, Kay Ann Johnson, “The 1950 Marriage Law”, in Women, the Family and Peasant Revolution in China‎^[1] (Asian studies/Women's studies), University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 134:

     […] the anti-Japanese base areas in Shansi (in Wu-hsiang County) and Shantung (Wen-teng County). The report also cited villages in Lu Shan County, Honan, an area which was liberated in 1948.]

   • 2013 March 17, Jason Lee, “China replaces Britain in world's top five arms exporters - report”, in Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-06-30, Top News‎^[3]:

     A man pretends to shoot during a live action role-playing game based on a computer game "Stalker", at a guerrilla warfare experiential park, one of two theme parks, on the outskirts of Wuxiang county, north China's Shanxi province, October 20, 2012.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 武鄉／武乡 (zh) (Wǔxiāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuxiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 2
• Wuxiang, Wu-hsiang, Wuhsiang, Wusiang at Google Ngram Viewer