Urchi
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Uyghur ئۇرچى (urchi).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Urchi
- A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
- 2018 April 19, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Use ‘Burial Management Centers’ to Subvert Uyghur Funeral Traditions”, in Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia[1], archived from the original on April 19, 2018:
- The head of Urchi township in Hotan’s Qaraqash (Moyu) county said she had heard “about a month ago” that a burial management center had been constructed and would be “opening soon.”
- 2018 May 10, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Jail Uyghur Imam Who Took Son to Unsanctioned Religious School”, in Radio Free Asia[2], archived from the original on May 10, 2018:
- Abduheber Ahmet, the imam of the Dongbagh Mosque in Urchi township, in Hotan’s Qaraqash (Moyu) county, was initially detained in May 2017 and handed a five and a half-year jail term a month later, the ruling Chinese Communist Party secretary of Urchi township told RFA’s Uyghur Service.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Urchi.
Translations[edit]
township in Karakax, Hotan, Xinjiang, China