Tokkuzak
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Etymology[edit]
From Uyghur توققۇزاق (toqquzaq).
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Tokkuzak
- A town in Shufu, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China
- 2005 July 20, Rebiya Kadeer, “Letter from Rebiya Kadeer, Human Rights Activist, to the Congress of the United States”, in Falun Gong and China's Continuing War on Human Rights[1], →OCLC, page 3:
- In Tokkuzak town of Kashgar, over hundred students and teachers were arrested for performing collective prayer.
- 2014 May 4, “President Xi Jinping makes inspection tour in Xinjiang (4)”, in People's Daily[2], archived from the original on May 2, 2021:
- Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) poses for a group photo with pupils and teachers of the central primary school in Tokkuzak Township, Shufu County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 28, 2014. Xi made an inspection tour in Xinjiang from April 27 to 30.
- 2017, Jia Zhao, Huang Xiaoxi, “Clapper talk, calligraphy changing Uygur life”, in Shanghai Daily[3]:
- A teacher instructs a student in calligraphy at the central primary school in Tokkuzak Township, Shufu County, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
- 2021 December 15, Shohret Hoshur, “Uyghur poet imprisoned on separatism charges in China’s Xinjiang”, in Roseanne Gerin, transl., Radio Free Asia[4], archived from the original on 15 December 2021:
- The official could not say which of Gulnisa’s poems got her arrested, what crime Gulnisa had been charged with, or whether she had a trial. But he did confirm that she is serving her sentence in Mush Women’s prison in Tokkuzak (Toukezhake) township in Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture.
Synonyms[edit]
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Tuokezhake