Wulipu

See also: Wǔlǐpù

English
Map including Wu-li-p'u (Wulipu) (DMA, 1985) →OCLC

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Mandarin 五里鋪 (Wǔlǐpù, literally “five Li relay station for post horses[1]”).

Proper noun

Wulipu

  1. A town in Shayang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
    • 2009 January 14, “Excavation Report on Zuozhong Chu Tombs in Jingmen”, in The Institute of Archaeology CASS‎, archived from the original on 5 February 2022:
      Zuozhong Chu tombs are located in Wulipu town, 45 km south of Jingmen City, Hubei province.
    • 2020 March 6, Yanqing Wang, “第一户湖北籍蜂农已顺利返乡，其他近200户有望近期全部返回 绿会复工部 [The First Beekeeper from Hubei Province Has Returned Without a Hitch, And Nearly 200 Others Are Expected to Return Soon CBCGDF Anti-Epidemic and Resumption Working Group]”, in China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation‎, archived from the original on 13 April 2020:
      At midnight on March 1st, Liu, a bee farmer born in Hubei, and her family finally arrived in the hometown, Wulipu Town, with over 500 boxes of honey.[...]Although the driver is Hubei native, the authority of Wulipu Town insists that only when the driver obtains an effective health certificate can he leave.
    • 2020, Fan Yang, Guangqing Chi, Ge Wang, Shirui Tang, Yunting Li, Cong Ju, “Untangle the complex stakeholder relationships in rural settlement consolidation in China: a social network approach”, in Land‎, volume 9, number 7, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:
      The village of Chenchi is located in the town of Wulipu, Hubei province in central China, with the163 coordinates 111° E and 30° N (Figure 3).

Translations

References
  1. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, editor (2016 September 1), 现代汉语词典 [Xiandai Hanyu Cidian] (in Chinese), Seventh edition, Beijing: The Commercial Press, →ISBN, page 1019: “{...}铺3(鋪、*舖) pù 驿站（今多用于地名）：五里~(在湖北){...”}

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