Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hankou

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English

Syllables: Han-kou
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A former city and treaty port; since 1949 an area in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China, split among the districts of Jiang'an, Jianghan and Qiaokou.

Example Sentences

"Marcia Aldrich Thompson was born on Oct. 2, 1923, in the Central Chinese city of Hankou (now part of Wuhan) where her father, Newell, was an executive with the Standard Oil Company of New York."
"Authorities in Wuhan, the epicenter of China's outbreak and location of the majority of its deaths, quickly identified the funeral business as a potential source of transmission. The local civil affairs bureau in late January ordered all funerals for confirmed COVID-19 victims to be handled at a single funeral home in the city's Hankou district."

Etymology

From the Mandarin 漢口 /汉口 (Hànkǒu, “Mouth of the Han River”).

Word Breakdown

Root: 漢口

Inflected Forms

Hankow (alternative) Han-k'ou (alternative) Hankhow (alternative)

Questions

What does hankou mean?: A former city and treaty port; since 1949 an area in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China, split among the districts of Jiang'an, Jianghan and Qiaokou.
Where does hankou come from?: From the Mandarin 漢口 /汉口 (Hànkǒu, “Mouth of the Han River”).

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