hekou
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A Yao autonomous county in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China, near Lào Cai, Vietnam.
Example Sentences
- "Hokou County in Yunnan Province and Lao Kay in Vietnam are separated by a river. The two banks of the river are full of wandering Overseas Chinese refugees."
- "On Monday night, the New China News Agency said militiamen in Yunnan's Hekou County had ambushed Vietnamese infiltrators before dawn on Sunday, killing four of them and capturing a machine gun and four submachine guns."
- "On arrival at the hamlet of Ying-kuan-chai, over-looked by a ruined Tibetan fort, which we reached by a wooden bridge spanning the stream and by following the latter’s right bank to the end of the valley, I held a meeting of all the drivers, and informed them that the Commissary at Ta-chien-lu had distinctly stated to me that the animals supplied to me at Ta-chien-lu would take me right through to Ho-k’ou, a five days’ march, and that I would have no trouble with change of transport as far as that place."
Etymology
From Mandarin 河口 (Hékǒu).
Word Breakdown
- Root: ^河口
Inflected Forms
Ho-k'ou (alternative)
Hokow (alternative)