Hohhot
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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.
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Proper noun
Hohhot
- The capital city of Inner Mongolia, in north-central China.
- 1980, Jia Lanpo, 中国大陆上的远古居民 [Early Man in China], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 45:
- 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.
- 2008, John Man, The Great Wall, Bantam Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 35:
- 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.
- 2019 December 7, “Cow cash”, in The Economist, volume 433, number 9172, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 61–62:
- 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.
- 2022 August 6, Chris Buckley, Steven Lee Myers, “In Turbulent Times, Xi Builds a Security Fortress for China, and Himself”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 August 2022, Asia Pacific:
- On National Security Education Day in April, students in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, were instructed on how to report suspicious activity.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hohhot.
Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Huhehaote, Hu-ho-hao-t'e
- (historical) Kweisui (Guisui, Kuei-sui)
Related terms
Translations
capital of Inner Mongolia
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hohhot”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1295, column 2
- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo fen sheng dituji (Hanyu Pinyin ban) (Atlas of the People's Republic of China (Hanyu Pinyin edition)
- “Hohhot, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Hohhot”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- Enkhjargal Purev & al., "Color Terms in Mongolian Place Names: A Typological Perspective", Вопросы Ономастики, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2023), pp. 140–155.