Qiaokou

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'iao-k'ou (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 礄口／硚口 (Qiáokǒu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌt͡ʃjaʊˈkoʊ/

Proper noun

Qiaokou

1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
   • [1980 [1957], Fan-hsi Wang, “The Pacific War and a New Split in the Organization”, in Gregor Benton, transl., Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary‎^[1], New York: Columbia University Press, published 1991, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 243:

     When the Northern Expedition reached Wuhan in 1927 Li Ts'ai-lien, although only a girl of fifteen, plunged headlong into revolutionary work and was active as a trade union organizer in the workers' district of Ch'iao-k'ou.]

   • 1995, Shaoguang Wang, Failure of Charisma: the Cultural Revolution in Wuhan‎^[2], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:

     Hankou’s industries were concentrated either on the outskirts of Jiang’an District or in Qiaokou District.

   • 2020 May 14, Brenda Goh, “RPT-Wuhan residents brave rain, queues for COVID-19 mass-testing campaign”, in Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 29 April 2022, Healthcare Sector‎^[4]:

     In Wuhan’s Qiaokou district, at the Zirun Mingyuan apartment community where about 10,000 people live, men, women and children stood under umbrellas while elderly residents perched on stools as they waited to get tested at four sites set up in the middle of the compound.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Qiaokou.

Translations

district in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 礄口／硚口 (zh) (Qiáokǒu)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Qiaokou, Chiaokou at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.