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Qiaokou

Syllables: Qiao·kou/ˌt͡ʃjaʊˈkoʊ/

Qiaokou proper noun: a district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

Qiaokou

  1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
    • When the Northern Expedition reached Wuhan in 1927 Li Ts'ai-lien, although only a girl of fifteen, plunged headlong into revolutionary work and was active as a trade union organizer in the workers' district of Ch'iao-k'ou.[1980 [1957], Fan-hsi Wang, “The Pacific War and a New Split in the Organization”, in Gregor Benton, transl., Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary, New York: Columbia University Press, published 1991...
    • Hankou’s industries were concentrated either on the outskirts of Jiang’an District or in Qiaokou District.1995, Shaoguang Wang, Failure of Charisma: the Cultural Revolution in Wuhan, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24

Forms of Qiaokou

alternative formCh'iao-k'ou

Origin of Qiaokou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 礄口 /硚口 (Qiáokǒu).

Questions about Qiaokou

What does Qiaokou mean?
Qiaokou means a district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
What part of speech is Qiaokou?
Qiaokou is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Qiaokou?
Qiaokou is pronounced /ˌt͡ʃjaʊˈkoʊ/.

Words near Qiaokou in the dictionary

  1. Qianxi
  2. Qianxinan
  3. Qianyang
  4. Qianzhousaurus
  5. Qiao
  6. Qiaokou
  7. Qiaos
  8. QIB
  9. Qibin
  10. qibla
  11. qibla compass

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