Yangchow

English

Etymology

The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 揚州／扬州 (Yángzhōu).

Proper noun

Yangchow

  1. Alternative form of Yangzhou
    • December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 33:
      In a riot half a century earlier, Hudson Taylor had nearly lost his life at Yangchow, once the city of Marco Polo.
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