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Paokang

Paokang is the alternative form of Baokang.

Meaning of Baokang

Proper noun

Baokang

  1. A county of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
    • 7. The river Chü 沮 rises in Pao-k’ang 保康 county, Hupei, and runs through Yüan-an 遠安 county where it is joined by the Chang 漳.[1967, J. D. Frodsham, “Notes to the Poems”, in The Murmuring Stream: The Life and Works of the Chinese Nature Poet Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433), Duke of K’ang-Lo, volume 2, Kuala Lumpur: University of...

Origin of Paokang

From the Postal Romanization borrowed from Mandarin 保康 (Bǎokāng).

Questions about Paokang

What is Paokang the alternative form of?
Paokang is the alternative form of Baokang.

Words near Paokang in the dictionary

  1. paocai
  2. PAOCC
  3. PAOD
  4. Paofeng
  5. Paoh
  6. Paokang
  7. Paoking
  8. Paola
  9. Paolas
  10. Paolella
  11. Paolellas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Paokang (page history and authors); Baokang (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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