Meaning, origin and history of the place name Yazhou

Type Region

Scripts 亚洲(Chinese) 亞洲(Traditional Chinese)

Pronounced Pron. YA-CHO [key·IPA]

Meaning & History

From a short form of Yaxiya combined with 洲 (zhōu) meaning "continent, island". This is the modern Chinese name for Asia.

Other Languages & CulturesAsia(Ancient Greek) Asia(Ancient Roman) Asiya(Arabic) Asiya(Azerbaijani) Eshiya(Bengali) Azija(Bosnian) Aziya(Bulgarian) Àsia(Catalan) Azija(Croatian) Asie(Czech) Asien(Danish) Asia(English) Aasia(Estonian) Aasia(Finnish) Asie(French) Asien(German) Asia(Greek) Eshiya(Gujarati) Asiya(Hausa) Asya(Hebrew) Eshiya(Hindi) Asía(Icelandic) Asia(Indonesian) Asia(Italian) Ajia(Japanese) Aziya(Kazakh) Aziya(Kyrgyz) Azija(Lithuanian) Azija(Macedonian) Asia(Malay) Asia(Norwegian) Asiya(Persian) Azja(Polish) Ásia(Portuguese) Asia(Romanian) Aziya(Russian) Azija(Serbian) Azija(Slovene) Asia(Spanish) Asien(Swedish) Asya(Tagalog) Asya(Turkish) Aziya(Ukrainian)