Paotow
Paotow is the dated form of Baotou.
Meaning of Baotou
Proper noun
Baotou
- A prefecture-level city, the largest city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.
- Moving west from Paotowchen there is only one highway, which many camel trains from Kansu follow in winter, but which is almost deserted in summer when the Yellow River is ice free. This road leads through Santaoho, a Roman Catholic Mission village near the elbow of the river, through Shihtsuishan...[1918 April, Rodney Gilbert, “Pneumonic Plague in China”, in Asia, volume XVIII, number 4, American Asiatic Association, page 344, columns 2, 3
Origin of Paotow
Borrowed from Mandarin 包頭／包头 (Bāotóu).
Questions about Paotow
- What is Paotow the dated form of?
- Paotow is the dated form of Baotou.
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