hou
/hˈu/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.10 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Abbreviation of Houston (in Texas).
Example Sentences
- "Comrade Hou Zongbin came to the environmental sanitation transfer station on (Ninggong) Road, Erqi District, and warmly clasped hands with two workers (Chu Yuwen) and (Zhao Dongfang), voicing his thanks to more than 2,400 environmental sanitation workers throughout the city, including these two, who had been working so hard that the people in the provincial capital could enjoy a happy, civilized, and peaceful Spring Festival, and wishing them good health and family happiness."
- "According to the court, Tseng claimed the money to pay the salaries of three county council aides, but Tseng colluded with his wife, surnamed Hou (侯), to hire their relatives to pose as aides and pocket the money themselves. It was found that one of the aides continued to receive a salary from April to July 2017 after having quit and remitted the money to Hou."
- "The present paper deals with a collection of mammalian fossils found in situ by a field team of IVPP in the late Pleistocene sandy clays interbeding [sic] with sands and gravels along the Laochihegou valley in Houzhen Commune, Lantian District, Shensi."
- "Shanghou is also mentioned on the Buzhi ding 不栺鼎 (JC: 2735), which was excavated from the tomb no.3 in Fufeng, Shaanxi and records that the Zhou King went to the garrison at Shanghou.⁸⁴ In a recent study, Shanghou is identified with the present-day Houzhen 厚鎮, located between the Lantian 藍田 county and the Weinan 渭南 county in Shaanxi province.⁸⁵"
- "The study profile, an outcrop formed by road building (Fig. 2), is at an altitude of about 920 m in west Hou Town (N34°16', E109°27'), Lantian County."
- "Key projects are Lantian modern broiler industrial park, Dazhai bungeana breeding base, Hou Town walnut industrial park, Bailu Plain film city, and Hou Town mountain biking theme park."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: 侯, -