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  • At Hilton Worldwide Inc. hotels, China's high-end world travelers can have access to customized Chinese services that include front desk workers fluent in Mandarin, Chinese-language television channels, and their own breakfast menu of friend dough sticks and rice porridge known as zhou pronounced like "joe".

    A Wish of E-Shoppers Everywhere, Now in China Laurie Burkitt 2011

  • Jook, or porridge, is "zhou" or "xifan" in Mandarin using the pinyin transliteration system of the Mainland.

    Rainy day breakfast 2005

  • The "ten-thousand household," "one thousand household," and "one hundred household" administrative entities were replaced with lu (circuit), fu (prefect), zhou (department), and xian (county).

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • “He xie yu zhou” pronounced huh shyeh yü joe means harmonize universes.

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • Transportation was handled by designated transportation commissioners, and mines were under local officials of prefecture (fu), subprefecture (zhou), county (xian), and subcounty (ting) where mines were located.

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • “He xie yu zhou” pronounced huh shyeh yü joe means harmonize universes.

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • I was greatly surprised and very happy that my small circle, my xiao zhou tian, spontaneously opened!

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • I was greatly surprised and very happy that my small circle, my xiao zhou tian, spontaneously opened!

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • In traditional Tao practice, one special practice is named xiao zhou tian, the “microcosmic orbit.”

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • In traditional Tao practice, one special practice is named xiao zhou tian, the “microcosmic orbit.”

    Tao II Dr. 2010

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