Yingkou

English

Alternative forms

• Yingkow (Postal Romanization)
• Ying-k'ou (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 營口 / 营口 (Yíngkǒu).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yǐngʹkō

Proper noun

Yingkou

1. A prefecture-level city in Liaoning, China.
   • 1900 April 26, “The Foreign Trade of China in 1899”, in The Board of Trade Journal‎^[2], volume XXIX, number 178, page 155:

     Yingkou, the real port of Newchwang, will shortly be connected by rail with the capital.

   • 1922, South Manchuria Railway Company, Manchuria, Land of Opportunities‎^[3], Thomas F. Logan, Inc., →OCLC, page 23:

     Tobacco—Tobacco is one of the staple products of Manchuria. The best leaf is raised around Kirin. It is blended with foreign leaf in making cigarettes. The British American Tobacco Company has a factory at Mukden, and the East Asia Tobacco Company has a factory at Yingkou. The export of the native leaf is increasing.

   • 2021 May 14, “Officials log first local covid cases in weeks”, in The Washington Post, Reuters‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-16, World Digest‎^[5]:

     Meanwhile, Liaoning’s provincial health authority reported three new infections, including two local ones, both in the port city of Yingkou.

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

Translations

prefecture-level city of Liaoning, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 營口 / 营口 (jing⁴ hau²)

  Mandarin: 營口 / 营口 (zh) (Yíngkǒu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yingkou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 2

Anagrams

• youking