Jiaozuo

• (from Wade–Giles) Chiao-tso

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 焦作 (Jiāozuò).

Jiaozuo

1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
   • [1987, Peter Stursberg, “Dragon Bones”, in The Golden Hope: Christians in China‎, Toronto: The United Church Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:

     Luttrell gave up missionary work in 1924 to become a welfare officer with the Peking Syndicate’s coal mine at Chiaotso in North Honan.⁴
     As a missionary, Luttrell had been stattoned at Chiaotso and got to know the British managers and engineers who were in charge of operations there.]

   • 2016 March 31, Alan Taylor, “More of the Chinese Art of the Crowd”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 05 April 2016‎:

     Participants perform Tai Chi at a square in Jiefang District during a worldwide Tai Chi activity on October 18, 2015, in Jiaozuo, Henan Province.