Lushunkou

See also: Lüshunkou and Lǚshùnkǒu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 旅順口／旅顺口 (Lǚshùnkǒu), Wade-Giles romanization: Lü³-shun⁴-kʻou³.

Proper noun

Lushunkou

1. Alternative form of Lüshunkou
   • 1897, “The new treaty between Russia and China for the extension of the Great Siberian Railway through Manchuria”, in Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association‎^[1], →OCLC, page 378:

     For the same reason, we suppose, she does not take possession of the Liaotung ports of Lushunkou (Port Arthur) and Talienwan, and their dependencies, but she undertakes to help China to put them in thorough repair against future dangers, and undertakes not to allow any foreign Power to encroach upon them.

   • 1987, Steven I. Levine, Anvil of Victory: the Communist Revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948‎^[2], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 48–49:

     He coupled this with a warning to Chungking that the USSR would not allow the Nationalists to land troops at Talien because of its status as a commercial port, nor at Lushunkou (Port Arthur), which was a naval base.

   • 1990, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World‎^[3], Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 58:

     The invasion of China offered Tulai, as it did his fellow officers, unprecedented opportunities for promotion and ennoblement. He had come to fame in the 1629 raid on Peking early in Hung Taiji's reign; for his valor in the first attack upon the Chinese capital he had been awarded minor hereditary rank. Later he distinguished himself in the battle at Lushunkou in 1643. where his elder brother Xagai died, and in the capture of Datong in 1644.

Usage notes

Lushunkou can be considered a misspelling of Lüshunkou. A word made up of lü, shun and kou would be spelled as Lüshunkou and a word made up of lu, shun and kou would be spelled as Lushunkou.

Translations

Lüshunkou — see Lüshunkou

Further reading

• “Lushunkou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.