Hekou

See also: hékǒu and Hékǒu

English

Alternative forms

• Ho-k'ou (Wade–Giles)
• Hokow (Postal Romanization)

Etymology

From Mandarin 河口 (Hékǒu).

Proper noun

Hekou

1. A Yao autonomous county in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China, near Lào Cai, Vietnam.
   • 1983 April 20, Christopher S. Wren, “PEKING WARNS HANOI ON BORDER CLASHES”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, World‎^[2]:

     On Monday night, the New China News Agency said militiamen in Yunnan's Hekou County had ambushed Vietnamese infiltrators before dawn on Sunday, killing four of them and capturing a machine gun and four submachine guns.

   • [2001, Alexander Hosie, “Ta-chien-lu to the Tibetan frontier and back”, in Mr Hosie's Journey to Tibet, 1904: A Report by Mr A. Hosie, His Majesty's Consul at Chengtu, on a Journey from Chengtu to the Eastern Frontier of Tibet‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82:

     On arrival at the hamlet of Ying-kuan-chai, over-looked by a ruined Tibetan fort, which we reached by a wooden bridge spanning the stream and by following the latter’s right bank to the end of the valley, I held a meeting of all the drivers, and informed them that the Commissary at Ta-chien-lu had distinctly stated to me that the animals supplied to me at Ta-chien-lu would take me right through to Ho-k’ou, a five days’ march, and that I would have no trouble with change of transport as far as that place.]

Translations

Yao autonomous county in Yunnan

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 河口 (zh) (Hékǒu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hekou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1261, column 3