hohhot
/hoʊˈhɒt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The capital city of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in north-central China.
Example Sentences
- "The assemblage of stone artifacts at Dingcun represents a very important link in the evolution of China's primitive cultures. It succeeded the Gehe culture and ushered in the Dayao culture of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia and the Emaokou culture in Huairen County, Shanxi Province."
- "Then again, Sima Qian says that, after crossing the river, the Wall wound northward to touch a mountain north-west of Hohhot. But no wall winds northward here."
- "Mengniu can tap high-quality Aussie milk. And it is one in the eye for Yili, its bigger cross-town dairy rival in Hohhot, the regional capital of Inner Mongolia."
- "On National Security Education Day in April, students in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, were instructed on how to report suspicious activity."
Etymology
From Mongolian Хөх хот (Xöx xot), modern form of ᠬᠥᠬᠡᠬᠣᠲᠠ (kökeqota), from ᠬᠥᠬᠡ (köke, “dark blue; (hist.) green, grue”) + ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (qota, “town, city”), given to the settlement by Altan Khan in the 1580s. His previous palace and monastery established outside modern Baotou in 1572 bore the same name, although it is now frequently connected to the nearby Daqing Mountains instead, whose name is similarly ambiguous between blue and green.
Word Breakdown
- Root: Хөх хот