Wuwei

• enPR: wo͞oʹwāʹ^[1]
• Hyphenation: Wu‧wei

From Mandarin 武威 (Wǔwēi).

Wuwei

1. A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.
   • 1945 June, Walter C. Lowdermilk, “China Fights Erosion with U. S. Aid”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[2], volume LXXXVII, number 6, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 663, column 2:

     Now this old-new part of China is having a boom. Building is going on apace in the cities of Wuwei, Changyeh, and Kiuchuan of the Corridor.

   • 2016, Bill Porter, The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan‎^[3], Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:

     But halfway back, he learned that there had been a change in dynasties and decided he would be better off staying where he was. And so Lu Kuang set up his own Silk Road kingdom at Wuwei in the middle of the Kansu Corridor.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wuwei.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuwei”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 1
• “Wuwei, Wu-wei”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.

From Mandarin 無為 / 无为 (Wúwéi).

Wuwei

1. A county-level city of Wuhu, Anhui, China.
   • 1969 July 11 [1969 July 9], “Anhwei Prepares for Yangtze River Flooding”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 133, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Hofei Anhwei Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: East Region, page C 3:

     The broad revolutionary masses of Wuwei County, Anhwei, with high class consciousness, have been and continue to do a fine job in preparing themselves ideologically, organizationally, and materially to fight against flooding to insure the safety of the great Wuwei embankment.

   • 2007 August 29, “Predictions off for global warming flood risk”, in Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 1 July 2023, Pictures:

     Two children walk on a flooded playground at a school in Wuwei county, east China's Anhui province August 28, 2007.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuwei”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 1
• “Wuwei, Wu-wei”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.