Aqqik

English

Alternative forms

  • Achchiq

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur ئاچچىق (achchiq).

Proper noun

Aqqik

  1. A township in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
    • 1991, Tamio Kotaka, Shallow Tethys 3: Proceedings of the International Symposium, →OCLC, pages 235, 236:
      Within the Tarim Basin, they reach to the Aqqik area, and Magartag in the central region.[...]the Tarim gulf was very wide, and seawater extended northward to Yingan of Akesu, and Xiaokuzibai of Wensu and possibly eastward to Aqqik of Luopu.
    • 1996, Zhou Zhiyi, W. T. Dean, editors, Phanerozoic Geology of Northwest China, Beijing: Science Press, →OCLC, page 125:
      In the course of marine incursion and sedimentation, the sea only reached the Wuqia area during the late Eocene, but in Palaeocene - middle Eocene, marine conditions extended eastwards into the desert of the Mazartag area, and southwards, probably into the Aqqik area of Lop.
  2. A township in Yopurga, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

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