Mentougou

See also: Méntóugōu

English

Alternative forms

• Men-t'ou-kou, Mentoukou (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 門頭溝／门头沟 (Méntóugōu).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mǔnʹtōʹgōʹ

Proper noun

Mentougou

1. A district of Beijing, China.
   • 2023 July 31, Chris Buckley, “Two Dead as Heavy Rains Batter Beijing, Putting City on Alert”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on July 31, 2023, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     Between Saturday evening and Monday at 1 p.m., Beijing recorded an average of about 7 inches of rain. In the city’s Mentougou District, the average was over 12 inches, according to data from Beijing’s weather service, and Fangshan, another district on the capital’s outskirts, recorded even more.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門頭溝／门头沟 (zh) (Méntóugōu)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Manchu: ᠮᡝᠨ
  ᡨᡝᠣ
  ᡤᡝᠣ (men teo geo)

Further reading

• Mentougou, Men-t'ou-kou, Mentoukou at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Mentougou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1952, column 2