# Karakax
## English
### Alternative forms

* Qaraqash, Karakash

### Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur قاراقاش (qaraqash).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɑɹ.ə.kɑʃ/, /kɛ(ə)ɹ.ə.kæʃ/

### Proper noun

Karakax
* A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
** 2016 December 28, “Xinjiang attack: four 'terrorists' and one bystander killed, says China”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on December 29, 2016:The Xinjiang government said in a short statement on its main news website that the incident occurred just before 5pm in Karakax county, deep in southern Xinjiang’s Uighur heartland.
** 2017 January 5, Christian Shepherd, “China investigates party officials in restive Xinjiang for 'discipline breaches'”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 05 January 2017, World News:The Xinjiang Discipline Inspection Commission announced the investigation into Hu Jun, 49, party secretary of Karakax county in south Xinjiang, and Zhang Jinbiao, 53, party secretary of Hotan, the prefecture where Karakax is located.
** 2019 July 15, “Across China: More Xinjiang households benefit from natural gas project”, in mingmei, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎, archived from the original on July 15, 2019:To improve the local people's living standards, the natural gas project was launched in 2010 and has been operating since 2013. So far, more than 3,000 km of pipes have been installed, providing natural gas to 42 counties and cities, and benefiting over 4 million residents in south Xinjiang. "It saved me a lot of money," said Hawanisahan Jelili, who lived in Karakax County in Hotan Prefecture, adding her family would spend nearly 3,500 yuan for heating by burning coal in winter, but it was reduced to 2,000 yuan after natural gas pipes were built in the county in 2016.
** 2020 February 18, “Leaked data shows China's Uighurs detained due to religion”, in Aruba Today‎, page A10:The detainees listed come from Karakax County, a traditional settlement on the edge of Xinjiang's Taklamakan desert where more than 97 percent of its roughly 650,000 residents are Uighur.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Karakax.
* A town in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
** 1997, Peter Neville-Hadley, China the Silk Routes (Cadogan Guides)‎, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 294:After 80km and 1½ hours there is finally some green at the turn-off to Píshān, but the desert soon reclaims the road's boundaries, threatening the road itself, until Karakax (Mòyù), about 25km before Khotan, where there are tidy cultivated fields of corn, cotton and rice.
** 2017, Guzhalinuer Abulizi, Hua Li, Patiman Mijiti, Tangnuer Abulimiti, Jing Cai, Jie Gao, Dandan Meng, Reyihanguli Abula, Tunishahan Abudereyimu, Anarguli Aizezi, You Lin Qiao, “Risk factors for human papillomavirus infection prevalent among Uyghur women from Xinjiang, China”, in United States National Library of Medicine‎:6000 women were recruited for this study from the Karakax County (Karakax town and Zawa, Yawa, Karsay and Kuiya villages) of the Hotan Prefecture (Xinjiang, China). All the participants provided informed consent. The eligible women were aged between 21–60 years, sexually active, not pregnant and had no history of diagnosed CIN, cervical cancer or hysterectomy.
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* Karakash River
** 2004, Gyurme Dorje, Footprint Tibet (Footprint Travel Guides)‎, 3rd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 397:The road then descends into the valley of the Karakax River, where a detour cuts through to Khotan at the southern extremity of the Taklamakhan Desert on the Silk Route.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Karakax.

#### Synonyms

* (from Mandarin Chinese) Moyu, Mo-yü, Kalakashi, K'a-la-k'a-shih