"O-chou" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 鄂州 (Èzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: O⁴-chou¹.",
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          "text": "Pʻei Yen-ling settled at O-chou on the middle Yangtze, where he devoted himself to historical scholarship, continuing and completing the famous commentary to the Shih-chi of Pei Yin, and acquiring some reputation as a scholar.",
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          "ref": "1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 67:",
          "text": "From the foregoing outline of the circulation of rice in the various provinces it is apparent that Lin-an (Hang-chou), Chien-kʻang (Nanking) and O-chou (Wu-chʻang) were central regional markets serving a large-scale long-distance trade freely carried on by merchants.",
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          "text": "Liu Chen had gone to the Wu area about 776 to begin mourning for his father. After the mourning period had elapsed, he was assigned to serve (ca. 783) in O-chou under Li Chien.",
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          "ref": "2000, Lady Murasaki, translated by Arthur Waley, The Tale of Genji, Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146:",
          "text": "So must the voice of the mysterious lady at O-chou have sounded in Po Chü-i's ears when he heard her singing on her boat at night;¹⁷ and he stood listening.",
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