Baokang

See also: Bǎokāng

English

Alternative forms

• Paokang (Postal Romanization)
• Pao-k'ang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保康 (Bǎokāng).

Proper noun

Baokang

1. A county of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
   • [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^[1], volume 2, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, →OCLC, page 192:

     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.]

   • 2010, Hong De-Yuan, “Introduction”, in Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography‎^[2], Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:

     We also found the individual plant from which the type specimen of P. baokangensis was collected. This peony, cultivated beside a farmer’s house in Huoping Township, Baokang County, turned out to be a hybrid between P. rockii subsp. rockii and P. qiui.

Translations

county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保康 (zh) (Bǎokāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Baokang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308, column 2