Zigui

See also: zǐguī and Zǐguī

English

Alternative forms

• Tzekwei (Postal Romanization)
• Tzukuei, Tzu-kuei (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秭歸／秭归 (Zǐguī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌ(d)zɪˈɡweɪ/, enPR: dzûʹgwāʹ

Proper noun

Zigui

1. A county of Yichang, Hubei, China.
   • 1993 October 10, Nicholas D. Kristof, “A DIRECTORY OF CRUISES WORLDWIDE; The Yangtze's Gorges”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-26, Travel‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 1998, Li Boning, “Acknowledgments from "General Plan for Population Resettlements"”, in The River Dragon Has Come! The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People‎^[4], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 168:

     He visited the experimental rice paddy plot in Zigui County and watched a video titled “The Advantages of Developmental Population Resettlement.”

   • 2002, Deirdre Chetham, Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges‎^[5], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 168:

     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.

   • 2007, Raynor Shaw, Three Gorges of the Yangtze River: Chongqing to Wuhan‎^[6], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 29:

     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

county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 秭歸／秭归 (zh) (Zǐguī)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zigui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3567, column 3
• Zigui, Tzukuei, Tzu-kuei, Tzekwei at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.