Xiuwu

English

Alternative forms

• Hsiu-wu, Hsiuwu (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 修武 (Xiūwǔ).

Proper noun

Xiuwu

1. A county of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
   • 1980 July, Tingjun Hou, “Blended Clay Porcelain”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:

     THE ancient art, lost for nearly 1,000 years, of blending clays so that the design is embodied in the porcelain article like a colored pattern into woven cloth, has been revived in its original home, Dangyangyu, Xiuwu county, Henan province.

   • [1983, Wanda Garnsey, Rewi Alley, “Honan”, in China, Ancient kilns and modern ceramics: A guide to the potteries‎^[2], Australian National University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 20–21:

     Near the T'ai-hang Mountains of Honan, T'ang-yang-yu, now the headquarters of a commune brigade in the municipality of Chiao-tso in Hsiu-wu County, was once the site of a thriving pottery centre in the Northern Sung Dynasty.]

   • 1985 January 7, Michael Weisskopf, “ONE COUPLE, ONE CHILD: Second of Three Articles Abortion Policy Tears At China's Society”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-03‎^[4]:

     When women in a Yellow River community of Henan Province fled in advance of a "high tide" last spring, Xiuwu County officials tore off roofs of their houses and knocked down walls with tractors, according to a Chinese medical staffer who witnessed the wrecking.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 修武 (zh) (Xiūwǔ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiuwu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 1