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Ho-t'ien

Ho-t'ien is the alternative form of Hetian.

Meaning of Hetian

Proper noun

Hetian

  1. Synonym of Hotan: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • Police arrested seven members of an East Turkestan separatist organization in Hetian prefecture in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, according an to August 30 article in the Hong Kong daily Wen Wei Po.2005 September 7, “Uighur Separatists Arrested in Xinjiang's Hetian Prefecture”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2014
    Synonyms:
    Hotan

Origin of Ho-t'ien

From Mandarin 和闐 /和阗 (Hétián) Wade–Giles romanization: Ho²-tʻien². and/or From Mandarin 和田 (Hétián) Wade–Giles romanization: Ho²-tʻien².

Questions about Ho-t'ien

What is Ho-t'ien the alternative form of?
Ho-t'ien is the alternative form of Hetian.

Words near Ho-t'ien in the dictionary

  1. Ho-Kaufman-McAlister syndrome
  2. Ho-nan
  3. Ho-p'u
  4. Ho-pei
  5. Ho-pi
  6. Ho-t'ien
  7. hoa
  8. HOA's
  9. Hoabinhian
  10. hoaching
  11. hoactzin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ho-t'ien (page history and authors); Hetian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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