Mentoukou

See also: Men-t'ou-kou

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 門頭溝／门头沟 (Méntóugōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Mên²-tʻou²-kou¹.

Proper noun

Mentoukou

1. Alternative form of Mentougou.
   • 1939, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China‎^[1], London: Thomas Murby & Co., →OCLC, page 172:

     The coalfields of Mentoukou and Chaitang, in the Western Hills of Peking, of Yuhsien, Yangyuan, and Hsuanhua in south-western Chahar, and of Kuangling and Tatung in northern Shansi are among the best known for their valuable Jurassic coal.

   • 1973 May 31, Nym Wales, “‘I Was Back in Peking’”, in The New York Times‎^[2], sourced from MADISON, Conn., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 10, 2024, page 41‎^[3]:

     I looked out the window of the former Grand Hotel de Pekin and thought of the days before World War II when I waltzed there with assorted Nazi, fascist and Scandinavian diplomats. On the street the slow‐moving bicycles moved silently where once I listened to the shuffling pad‐pad of camels bringing coal from Mentoukou. On these streets on Dec. 9, 1935, desperate Peking students had declared war on all kinds of fascism (so had I) and marched to break the “white terror,” as they called it.