Hankou
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English
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Etymology
From the Mandarin 漢口／汉口 (Hànkǒu, “Mouth of the Han River”).
Proper noun
Hankou
- A former city and treaty port; since 1949 an area in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
- 2018 April 10, Sam Roberts, “Marcia Thompson, Prudent Promoter of the Arts, Dies at 94”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 April 2018, Obituaries:
- 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.
- 2020 March 19, Angelo Amante, Parisa Hafezi, Hayoung Choi, Elisa Anzolin, Emilio Parodi, David Stanway, Joan Faus, Padraic Halpin, Emma Farge, Kate Kelland, Dan Williams in Jerusalem, Andrew RC Marshall, “'There are no funerals:' Death in quarantine leaves nowhere to grieve”, in Sara Ledwith, Jason Szep, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 May 2024, World:
- 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.
Translations
Former city
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hankou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1229, column 3