Huhehaote

See also: Hūhéhàotè

English

Alternative forms

• Hu-ho-hao-t'e (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 呼和浩特 (Hūhéhàotè).

Proper noun

Huhehaote

1. Synonym of Hohhot: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • [1973, M. Gardner Clark, “Footnotes”, in Development of China's Steel Industry and Soviet Technical Aid‎^[1], Ithaca, N.Y.: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 147, column 2:

     In July 1958 a rash of machinery plants began to make their own iron and steel from small modern furnaces. For example, the Hsin-sheng Machinery Plant in Huhohaote, Inner Mongolia, began producing pig iron for its own use on July 1 from two 13 cubic meter blast furnaces and announced the intention of installing two more, each of 55 cubic meter capacity during 1958; see Nei meng ku Jih-pao (Huhohaote), July 2, 1958, p. 1 (cit., WIRCC, no. 233, p. 5).]

   • 1981, P. R. S. Moorey, Emma C. Bunker, Edith Porada, Glenn Markoe, Ancient Bronzes Ceramics and Seals‎^[2], Los Angeles County Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 160:

     These bronzes relate stylistically to pieces said to come from western Inner Mongolia. A recently excavated example dated to the fourth- second century B.C. was discovered at Huhehaote.

   • 1997, Yu-Ping Liu, Chikashi Ito, Katsuko Komatsu, Tadato Tani, Dai-Wen Shi, Tsuneo Namba, “Pharmacognostical Studies on the Sino-Japanese Crude Drugs "Huajiao (花椒)" and "Sansho (山椒)" (Part 4) Determination of Botanical Origin of Chinese Crude Drug "Jiaomu (椒目)" by Scanning Electron Microscopy”, in Journal of Japanese Botany‎^[3], page 93:

     The commercial samples of Shanghai and Datong (Shanxi) market were the seed of Z. bungeanum and that of Huhehaote (Inner Mongolia) market was a mixture of seeds and pericarps of Z. schinifolium.

   • 2004, Treasures of China‎^[4], Reader's Digest, →ISBN, page 33:

     Located in the eastern section of Huhehaote City, the Huayan Sutra Pagoda goes by the far more formidable full name of Wanbu Huayan Jingta (Ten Thousand Volumes of Avata-masake Sutra Pagoda), but it is commonly called the White Tower.

   • 2018 April 6, Yue Wang, “Pinduoduo: The $1.5B Startup Challenging E-Commerce Giant Alibaba In China's Towns And Villages”, in Forbes‎^[5], archived from the original on 26 March 2023, Asia‎^[6]:

     With a monthly income of $470, Liu, a retired worker living in the northern city of Huhehaote, finds the selections on Alibaba’s sites a bit expensive.

Further reading

• “Huhehaote”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Huhehaote” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.