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Hou

Hou proper noun: a surname from Mandarin.

Proper noun (1)

Hou (plural Hous)

  1. A surname from Mandarin.
    • Comrade Hou Zongbin came to the environmental sanitation transfer station on (Ninggong) Road, Erqi District, and warmly clasped hands with two workers (Chu Yuwen) and (Zhao Dongfang), voicing his thanks to more than 2,400 environmental sanitation workers throughout the city, including these two...1991 February 21 [1991 February 15], “Hou Zongbin Visits Grass-Roots Workers”, in Daily Report: China, number 91-035, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Zhengzhou Henan Provincial...
    • According to the court, Tseng claimed the money to pay the salaries of three county council aides, but Tseng colluded with his wife, surnamed Hou (侯), to hire their relatives to pose as aides and pocket the money themselves.
    • It was found that one of the aides continued to receive a salary from April to July 2017 after having quit and remitted the money to Hou.2024 March 27, Flor Wang, H.E. Hsieh, “Ex-Nantou County councilor's 7.5-year fraud sentence upheld”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 May 2024, Society

Proper noun (2)

Hou

  1. A town in Lantian, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
    • The present paper deals with a collection of mammalian fossils found in situ by a field team of IVPP in the late Pleistocene sandy clays interbeding [sic] with sands and gravels along the Laochihegou valley in Houzhen Commune, Lantian District, Shensi.[1994, Late Quaternary Studies in Beringia and Beyond, 1950-1993: An Annotated Bibliography, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 258
    • Shanghou is also mentioned on the Buzhi ding 不栺鼎 (JC: 2735), which was excavated from the tomb no.3 in Fufeng, Shaanxi and records that the Zhou King went to the garrison at Shanghou.⁸⁴ In a recent study, Shanghou is identified with the present-day Houzhen 厚鎮, located between the Lantian 藍田 county...[2013, Minna Wu, On the Periphery of a Great “Empire”: Secondary Formation of States and Their Material Basis in the Shandong Peninsula during the Late Bronze Age, ca. 1000-500 B.C.E, Columbia...

Proper noun (3) capitalized: HOU

HOU

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Houston (in Texas).

Examples of Hou in a sentence

  • The study profile, an outcrop formed by road building (Fig. 2), is at an altitude of about 920 m in west Hou Town (N34°16', E109°27'), Lantian County.2011, Qian Xue, Zhiguo Rao, Suping Wang, Pingyu Zhang, Fahu Chen, “Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic study of carbonate along a...
  • Key projects are Lantian modern broiler industrial park, Dazhai bungeana breeding base, Hou Town walnut industrial park, Bailu Plain film city, and Hou Town mountain biking theme park.2013 March 13, “Four Agriculture Demonstration Zones to Be Built in Shaanxi”, in Shaanxi Province Department of Commerce, archived from the...

Forms of Hou

pluralHous

Origin of Hou

Borrowed from Chinese 侯 (Hóu).

From Mandarin 厚 (Hòu).

Questions about Hou

What does Hou mean?
Hou means a surname from Mandarin.
How do you use Hou in a sentence?
The study profile, an outcrop formed by road building (Fig. 2), is at an altitude of about 920 m in west Hou Town (N34°16', E109°27'), Lantian County.
What part of speech is Hou?
Hou is a proper noun.

Words near Hou in the dictionary

  1. hotwords
  2. Hotz
  3. Hotzes
  4. hotṛ
  5. hotṛs
  6. Hou
  7. houbara
  8. houbara bustard
  9. houbara bustards
  10. houbaras
  11. Houbi

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