Fugou
Syllables: Fu·gou
Fugou proper noun: a county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
Proper noun
Fugou
- A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
- The philosopher-official Ch’eng Hao (1033-1084), for example, won much esteem from officialdom and the intelligentsia when, as the magistrate of Fu-kou county, he stubbornly refused to implement the pao-chia system which was one of the prized projects of Emperior^([sic – meaning Emperor])...[1965, Franklin W. Houn, “The Chinese Monarch and Limits on Royal Power”, in Chinese Political Traditions, Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47
- Shuping Wang was born Zou Shuping on Oct. 20, 1959, in Fugou County, Henan. Her mother, Huang Yunling, was a village doctor; her father, Zou Bangyan, was a math teacher who had been a soldier in the Nationalist forces that were defeated by Mao Zedong’s Communists.2019 September 30, Chris Buckley, “Shuping Wang, Who Helped Expose China’s Rural AIDS Crisis, Dies at 59”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company...
Forms of Fugou
| alternative form | Fu-kou |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Fukou |
Origin of Fugou
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 扶溝 /扶沟.
Questions about Fugou
- What does Fugou mean?
- Fugou means a county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
- What part of speech is Fugou?
- Fugou is a proper noun.
Words near Fugou in the dictionary
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