Zhashui

See also: Zhàshuǐ

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 柞水 (Zhàshuǐ).

Pronunciation

• enPR: jäʹshwāʹ

Proper noun

Zhashui

1. A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.
   • 2014, Mark Moody-Stuart, Responsible Leadership: Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics‎^[1], Greenleaf Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 237:

     The book’s impressive statistics have a very human face, which I was able to see in 2007 on a visit to Zhashui County in Shaanxi Province with Lu Mai, the Secretary-General of the China Development Research Foundation, who plays a key role in organising the China Development Forum. Shaanxi is not a particularly poor province, but Zhashui County, located in the southern mountainous area, has an average annual per capita income of ¥1,300 ($188).

   • 2015 August 14, “Drunk Man Smashes 16 Cars After Scolding”, in Beijing Today‎^[2], number 740, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:

     Police in Zhashui County, Shaanxi province were notified of 16 cars being maliciously smashed on Hexi Road in late July.

   • 2021 April 23, “‘A Date with China’ media tour kicks off in Shaanxi”, in AP News, PR Newswire‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-04-14‎^[4]:

     “A Date with China”, an international media tour with the theme of “On Road to Prosperity”, kicked off Monday morning in Zhashui county, Shangluo city of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province. […]
     “Families and individuals in many poverty-stricken regions in China like Zhashui county have shed off poverty and led well-off lives. This transformation of their destinies is a miracle from China’s fight against poverty,” he added.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柞水 (zh) (Zhàshuǐ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhashui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3562, column 3