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Zhuge Liang
Zhuge Liang (諸葛亮, Kongming, 181–234), Lieutenant Chancellor of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period: regent for Liu Shan, pacifier of Nanzhong in 225, leader of five northern expeditions against Cao Wei (228–234), dead at Wuzhang Plains; distinguished from the deified novel hero.
Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions
Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions (诸葛亮北伐) were five campaigns by Shu Han chancellor Zhuge Liang against Cao Wei from Hanzhong between 228 and 234, ending when he died at Wuzhangyuan in 234.
Zhuge Liang's Southern Campaign
Zhuge Liang's Southern Campaign (諸葛亮南征) was the 225 military expedition led by Shu Han chancellor Zhuge Liang from Chengdu into the rebellious Nanzhong region, ending with the rebel leaders dead or surrendered.
Zhugongdiao
Zhugongdiao (諸宮調, "medley of modes") was a Chinese narrative sung-storytelling genre of the Song, Jin, and Yuan periods in which one performer alternated spoken passages with sung suites of tunes in different modes.
Zhuhai (珠海)
Zhuhai (珠海) is a Guangdong prefecture-level city on the western Pearl River estuary, a 1980 special economic zone bordering Macao, with 2.52 million people, 262 islands, GDP of 447.91 billion yuan in 2024, and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.
Zhuhai GZP power station
Zhuhai GZP power station, also known as Zhuhai Power Plant, is a coal-fired power station in Nanshui, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, operating two 700 MW units commissioned in 2000 and 2001.
Zhuhai LNG Terminal
Zhuhai LNG Terminal (珠海金湾LNG接收站) is a liquefied natural gas import and regasification terminal at Gaolan Port in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, operated by CNOOC and opened in 2013.
Zhuhai-1
Zhuhai-1 (珠海一号) is a commercial remote sensing satellite constellation operated by Zhuhai Orbita Aerospace of Zhuhai, China, planned to comprise 34 satellites carrying video, hyperspectral, and radar payloads, first launched in 2017.
Zhui Shu
Zhui Shu (缀术) is a lost mathematical treatise by Zu Chongzhi of the Southern Qi, one of the Ten Computational Canons taught under the Tang dynasty.
Zhujing Wan
驻景丸 (Zhujing Wan, Preserve Vistas Pill) is a classic Chinese medicine ophthalmic formula of cuscuta, plantain seed, and rehmannia from the Song Taiping Shenghui Fang, for dim vision from liver-kidney deficiency, with modern trials in dry AMD, floaters, dry eye, and myopia.
Zhukovskiy (lunar crater)
Zhukovskiy is a lunar impact crater with lettered satellite craters such as Zhukovskiy W (30.76 km, IAU adopted 2006), named for Russian physicist Nikolay Egorovich Zhukovskiy (1847-1921), located on the Moon's farside.
Zhuldyz
Zhuldyz (Жұлдыз, "Star") is the literary and socio-political journal of the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan, published monthly in Kazakh in Almaty; its first issue appeared in 1928.
Zhuling Decoction
猪苓汤 (Zhuling decoction, choreito), a five-herb classical Chinese medicine formula from the Shanghan Lun (zhuling, fuling, zexie, ejiao, huashi) that drains water, nourishes yin, and clears heat for water-heat binding with difficult urination; entry 9 of China's 2018 classic formula catalogue and an approved Japanese Kampo product.
Zhumadian
Zhumadian (驻马店) is a prefecture-level city in central-southern Henan, China, named for a Ming-era courier-horse station. It administers 9 counties plus Yicheng District, has 9.66 million registered residents, and is a major grain and agro-processing hub.
Zhundong converter station
The Zhundong converter station, also called the Changji converter station, sends ±1100 kV direct current from Xinjiang to Anhui over 3324 km, the world's highest-voltage HVDC link.
Zhundong Surface Mine
Zhundong Surface Mine (准东露天煤矿) is a large open-pit coal mine in the Zhundong coalfield in Xinjiang, China, licensed in 2025 for 35 million tonnes of coal per year.
Zhunger power station
Zhunger power station, also written Zhunge'er, is a coal-fired power station with four 330 MW units in Jungar Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, completed between 2002 and 2007.
Zhunger Weijiamao power station
Zhunger Weijiamao power station is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Junggar Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, with two 660 MW supercritical units operating since 2017.
Zhunger Zhujiaping power station
Zhunger Zhujiaping power station is a coal-fired power station in Junggar Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, operating two 660 MW ultra-supercritical units commissioned in 2021.
Zhuo Liwei
Zhuo Liwei (卓利伟) is a partner, chief research officer, and senior fund manager at Gao Yi Asset in Shanghai, formerly of Greenwoods and CCB Fund.
Zhuo Wei (卓伟)
Zhuo Wei (卓伟), real name Han Bingjiang, born 1971 in Tianjin, is China's best-known paparazzo, founder of Fengxing Studio, whose covert photography exposed celebrity affairs until his accounts were shut in 2017.
Zhuo Zhihe
Zhuo Zhihe (卓志哲) is a Taiwanese semiconductor executive who joined MediaTek in 1997 as its first employee, served as founding president, became vice chairman in 2005, and retired in 2015.
Zhuo'erkute Ancient City Site
卓尔库特古城遗址 (Zorküt Ancient City), a 400,000 m² triple-walled Han-Jin period city ruin in Luntai County, Xinjiang; largest ancient city site in Bayingolin and key candidate for the Western Regions Protectorate seat at Wulei.
Zhuomin Zhang
Zhuomin Zhang is a mechanical engineer who studies micro/nanoscale thermal radiation, holds the J. Erskine Love, Jr. Professorship at Georgia Tech, and won a 1999 PECASE award from the NSF.
Zhupanovsky
Zhupanovsky (Жупановский вулкан, Vakhilskaya Sopka) is a four-cone compound stratovolcano on Kamchatka, Russia, 2,899 m, last erupting 2013-2017 from the Priemysh cone.
Zhuque-3 (朱雀三号)
Zhuque-3 (朱雀三号) is a partially reusable methane-fueled orbital rocket developed by LandSpace; its August 2026 second flight achieved China's first land recovery of an orbital-class booster.
Zhurnal dlya Vsekh
Zhurnal dlya Vsekh (Журнал для всех, "Journal for Everyone") was a monthly illustrated literary and popular-science magazine published in Saint Petersburg from 1895 to 1906.
Zhurong (rover)
Zhurong (祝融), named after a Chinese god of fire, is China's first Mars rover. Delivered by Tianwen-1, it landed in southern Utopia Planitia in May 2021.
Zhuru Tang
竹茹汤 (Zhuru Decoction), a Song-era classic formula from Xu Shuwei's Pujibenshifang (cited from Sun Zhao), made of kudzu, licorice, and pinellia with bamboo shavings, ginger, and jujube; clears stomach heat to stop vomiting, distinct from Jupi Zhuru Decoction.
Zhuweicheng
Zhuweicheng (筑卫城遗址) is a large rammed-earth settlement site in Zhangshu, Jiangxi, occupied from the late Neolithic through the Eastern Zhou, excavated in 1974, 1977, and 2011, and a fifth-batch national key cultural relics protection unit since 2001.