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Hekou

Syllables: He·kou

Hekou proper noun: a Yao autonomous county in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China, near Lào Cai, Vietnam.

Proper noun

Hekou

  1. A Yao autonomous county in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China, near Lào Cai, Vietnam.
    • Hokou County in Yunnan Province and Lao Kay in Vietnam are separated by a river. The two banks of the river are full of wandering Overseas Chinese refugees.[1978 May 24 [1978 May 21], “57,000 Persecuted Overseas Chinese Residing in Vietnam Have Returned to China”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 101, sourced from Hong Kong...
    • On Monday night, the New China News Agency said militiamen in Yunnan's Hekou County had ambushed Vietnamese infiltrators before dawn on Sunday, killing four of them and capturing a machine gun and four submachine guns.1983 April 20, Christopher S. Wren, “PEKING WARNS HANOI ON BORDER CLASHES”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, World

Forms of Hekou

alternative formHo-k'ou
alternative formHokow

Origin of Hekou

From Mandarin 河口 (Hékǒu).

Questions about Hekou

What does Hekou mean?
Hekou means a Yao autonomous county in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China, near Lào Cai, Vietnam.
What part of speech is Hekou?
Hekou is a proper noun.

Words near Hekou in the dictionary

  1. hekistotherm
  2. hekistotherms
  3. Hekla
  4. Hekmatnejad
  5. Hekmatnejads
  6. Hekou
  7. Heksegryta Peaks
  8. hektare
  9. hektares
  10. hekte
  11. hekteus

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