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{{also|zǐguī|Zǐguī}}
==English==
{{wikipedia}}
{{commonscat|Zigui County}}

===Alternative forms===
* {{alt|en|Tzekwei||Postal}}
* {{alt|en|Tzukuei|Tzu-kuei||Wade-Giles}}

===Etymology===
From the {{bor|en|cmn-pinyin|-}} romanization of the {{bor|en|cmn|秭歸}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˌ(d)zɪˈɡweɪ/}}, {{enPR|dzûʹgwāʹ}}<ref name="seltzer">{{cite-book|en|year=1952|chapter=Tzekwei or Tzu-kuei|editor=Leon E. Seltzer|title=The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World|url=https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/|location=Morningside Heights, NY|publisher={{w|Columbia University Press}}|oclc=802473294|page=1971|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1971/|column=3}}</ref>

===Proper noun===
{{en-proper noun}}

# {{place|en|county|prefecture-level city/Yichang|p/Hubei|c/China}}.
#* {{quote-journal
|en
|date=October 10, 1993
|author=[[w:Nicholas Kristof|Nicholas D. Kristof]]
|title=A DIRECTORY OF CRUISES WORLDWIDE; The Yangtze's Gorges
|journal=w:The New York Times
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526090818/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/10/travel/a-directory-of-cruises-worldwide-the-yangtze-s-gorges.html?pagewanted=2
|issn=0362-4331
|oclc=1645522
|section=Travel
|url2=https://archive.is/HkDin
|text=Perhaps the most interesting stop was '''Zigui''', a county seat where we docked for the second night of the cruise. A famous poet and statesman, Qu Yuan, committed suicide in about 288 B.C. by leaping into the river here. His suicide is commemmorated each spring with dragon boat races, held especially for tourists, who can participate, whenever a cruise boat pulls up. It's all rather hokey, but everybody seemed to have fun. We also explored '''Zigui''' and visited a temple honoring Qu Yuan.}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=1998
|author=Li Boning
|chapter=Acknowledgments from "General Plan for Population Resettlements"
|title=The River Dragon Has Come! The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People
|url=https://archive.org/details/beforedelugevani00chet/
|publisher=w:M. E. Sharpe
|ISBN=0-7656-0205-9
|LCCN=97-23982
|OCLC=37277493
|OL=8054352M
|page=168
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/beforedelugevani00chet/page/168/
|text=He visited the experimental rice paddy plot in '''Zigui''' County and watched a video titled “The Advantages of Developmental Population Resettlement.”}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=2002
|author=Deirdre Chetham
|title=Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges
|url=https://archive.org/details/beforedelugevani00chet/
|publisher=w:Palgrave Macmillan
|ISBN=1-4039-6428-9
|LCCN=2002016939
|OCLC=474470844
|OL=8400279M
|page=168
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/beforedelugevani00chet/page/168/
|text=The Three Gorges have always been one geographic entity, but rarely a political one, a situation that has affected the overall development of the region, leaving Badong and '''Zigui''' counties cut off administratively and culturally from the Sichuan towns to the west and physically, by the hazards of Xiling Gorge, from Yichang and the rest of Hubei to the east.}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=2007
|author=Raynor Shaw
|title=Three Gorges of the Yangtze River: Chongqing to Wuhan
|url=https://archive.org/details/threegorgesofyan0000shaw/
|ISBN=978-962-217-774-1
|OCLC=1028414295
|OL=9160310M
|page=29
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/threegorgesofyan0000shaw/page/29/
|text=By way of illustration, the Xintan landslide in '''Zigui''' County blocked the Yangzi River on two significant occasions in 1030 and 1542, obstructing navigation for 21 and 82 years respectively.}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|county in central China}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|秭歸}}
* Japanese: {{t-needed|ja}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===References===
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===Further reading===
* {{cite-book|en|year=1998|chapter=Zigui|editor={{w|Saul B. Cohen}}|title=The Columbia Gazetteer of the World|url=https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/|volume=3|location=New York|publisher={{w|Columbia University Press}}|isbn=0-231-11040-5|lccn=98-071262|oclc=164337564|page=3567|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/3567/|column=3}}
* {{R:GNV|Zigui, Tzukuei, Tzu-kuei, Tzekwei}}