夔州

Kuízhōu
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Kuizhou, the old prefecture at today's Fengjie, Chongqing, at the upper end of the Three Gorges

Examples

HSK 4
Kuízhōu jiùshì jīntiān Chóngqìng de Fèngjié.
Kuizhou is today's Fengjie in Chongqing.
HSK 5
Dù Fǔ zài Kuízhōu zhù le jiāngjìn liǎng nián, xiě le sìbǎi duō shǒu shī.
Du Fu lived in Kuizhou for nearly two years and wrote more than four hundred poems there.

Tips

culture
Its Yangtze gate, 夔门, the mouth of the Qutang Gorge beside 白帝城, is pictured on the back of the 10-yuan note. Du Fu's 'Climbing High' (登高) and 'Autumn Meditations' were written here.

Stroke Order

夔 Kuí
州 zhōu