Hongkou
See also: Hóngkǒu
English
editAlternative forms
edit- (obsolete) Hung-k'ou
Etymology
editThe atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 虹口 (Hóngkǒu, literally “Rainbow Mouth”), a variation of earlier 洪口 (Hóngkǒu, literally “Flood Mouth”).
Proper noun
editHongkou
- A creek in Shanghai, China.
- A district of Shanghai, China.
- [1962, Shih Ch'eng-chih, “Types of Experimental Urban Communes”, in Urban Commune Experiments Communist China[1], Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, published 1974, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:
- There were also public mess halls in Shanghai, but they were mostly managed by the people. Under the disguise of "cultural revolution", some inhabitants' service establishments appeared in the districts around Chu's Family Bay. With the help of the old street inhabitants' committee, the one thousand odd households in Lungchang-li and Hungkou District were also organized and mess halls, factories, nurseries and spare-time middle-schools were set up. But they were not as progressive in scale and in nature as those in Peking and Tientsin.¹³]
- 2013 May 7, “Netanyahu: Jewish people capable of own defense”, in AP News[2], archived from the original on 25 May 2022[3]:
- On Tuesday, Netanyahu and his wife toured Shanghai’s Ohel Moshe synagogue in the Hongkou district that was home to many of the 18,000 Jews granted refuge in Shanghai from the horrors of Nazi persecution.
Synonyms
edit- (from Shanghainese) Hongkew
Translations
editFurther reading
edit- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hongkou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1304, column 3
Anagrams
editFrench
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Mandarin 虹口 (Hóngkǒu).
Proper noun
editHongkou m
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