Ulanhot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mongolian ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨᠬᠣᠲᠠ (ulaɣanqota, “red city”).

Proper noun

Ulanhot

1. A county-level city in Hinggan, Inner Mongolia, in northern China.
   • 2007 October 26, Ben Blanchard, “Go off the beaten track -- visit Ulanhot”, in Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 August 2022, Lifestyle‎^[2]:

     Of the millions of foreign tourists expected to flood to China next year for the Beijing Olympics, many will likely want to venture beyond the usual well-traveled tracks -- and maybe to Ulanhot. […]
     This Inner Mongolian city even had its name changed from Wangyemiao in 1947 to mark its place in Communist history as the first seat of government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ulanhot means “red city” in Mongolian.

   • 2015 October 12, Michael Forsythe, “Bao Zhuoxuan, Son of Rights Lawyer Held in China, Is Said to Be Under House Arrest”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-15, ASIA PACIFIC‎^[4]:

     Mr. Bao is now in Ulanhot, a city in Inner Mongolia, where he is under surveillance by the police and his movements are restricted, Ms. Liang said in a telephone interview. Mr. Bao’s grandparents could not be reached at two mobile phone numbers belonging to them. A woman at the office of politics of the Ulanhot Police Bureau said the bureau had no such case involving a 16-year-old boy named Bao Zhuoxuan.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏蘭浩特／乌兰浩特 (zh) (Wūlánhàotè)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wulanhaote”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 3: “Also called Horqin Youyi Qianqi, and appears as Ulanhot.”
• Ulanhot, Wulanhaote at Google Ngram Viewer