Wu-lu-mu-ch'i

See also: Wulumuchi

English

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 烏魯木齊 / 乌鲁木齐 (Wūlǔmùqí) Wade-Giles romanization: Wu¹-lu³-mu⁴-chʻi².[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wo͞oʹlo͞oʹmo͞oʹchēʹ
  • Rhymes: -uːtʃi

Proper noun

Wu-lu-mu-ch'i

  1. Alternative form of Wulumuqi (Ürümqi)
    • 1979, “Sin·kiang”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎[3], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 714:
      It is officially known as the Sinkiang Uigur Autonomous Region and is also called Chinese Turkistan or Eastern Turkistan. The capital is Wu-lu-mu-ch'i.[...]Sinkiang is now linked to the Chinese rail network, but west and south of Wu-lu-mu-ch'i transportation is still concentrated along two ancient roads: the north road, which skirts the southern edge of the Dzungaria and connects Wu-lu-mu-ch'i with the Soviet Turkistan-Siberia RR, and the south road, which encircles the Tarim basin.
    • 1992, “Political and Social”, in Donald McFarlan, editor, The Guinness Book of Records 1992‎[4], Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 204:
      Most remote from sea The large town most remote from the sea is Wu-lu-mu-ch’i (formerly Ürümqi) in Xinjiang, the capital of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, at a distance of about 1,500 miles from the nearest coastline. Its population was estimated to be 1,060,000 in late 1987.
    • 1996, S. C. M. Paine, “Capitulation: The Treaty of Peking”, in Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier‎[5], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:
      At the signing of the Treaty of Tarbagatai, the Chinese told the Russians that Muslims had taken Wu-lu-mu-ch’i (Urumchi) and were preparing to move on Tarbagatai and Ili (Kuldja).

Translations

References

  1. ^ Library of Congress Pinyin Conversion Project‎[1], Library of Congress, 24 February 2000, archived from the original on 17 November 2001‎[2]:
    6. Place names that are of non-Chinese origin will be continue to be romanized systematically in bibliographic description (even though sometimes the established heading for the jurisdiction may be romanized in a "conventional" form). As mentioned above, syllables that were hyphenated in the WG romanization of these place names will joined in PY:
    Wu-lu-mu-ch'i == Wulumuqi
    Kuang-chou == Guangzhou
  2. ^ Ürümqi, (Wade-Giles romanization) Wu-lu-mu-ch’i, in Encyclopædia Britannica

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