Hou
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English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Chinese 侯 (Hóu).
Proper noun
Hou (plural Hous)
- A surname from Chinese.
- 2024 March 27, Flor Wang, H.E. Hsieh, “Ex-Nantou County councilor's 7.5-year fraud sentence upheld”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on May 04, 2024, Society:
- According to the court, Tseng claimed the money to pay the salaries of three county council aides, but Tseng colluded with his wife, surnamed Hou (侯), to hire their relatives to pose as aides and pocket the money themselves.
It was found that one of the aides continued to receive a salary from April to July 2017 after having quit and remitted the money to Hou.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Hou is the 7395th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4500 individuals. Hou is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (94.6%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hou”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Hou
2011, Qian Xue, Zhiguo Rao, Suping Wang, Pingyu Zhang, Fahu Chen, “Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic study of carbonate along a loess/paleosol section in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, on the southeastern edge of the Chinese Loess Plateau”, in Environmental Earth Sciences, volume 64, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 238:
- The study profile, an outcrop formed by road building (Fig. 2), is at an altitude of about 920 m in west Hou Town (N34°16', E109°27'), Lantian County.
2013 March 13, “Four Agriculture Demonstration Zones to Be Built in Shaanxi”, in Shaanxi Province Department of Commerce, archived from the original on May 15, 2021:
- Key projects are Lantian modern broiler industrial park, Dazhai bungeana breeding base, Hou Town walnut industrial park, Bailu Plain film city, and Hou Town mountain biking theme park.
, archived from the original on 30 March 2023:
- During the winter vacation, Starflag-Bearers cooperated with Xi'an Youth Palace to provide volunteer teaching for primary and middle school students in Dongju Village, Houzhen Town, Lantian County, Xi 'an, delivering academic guidance for the children and witnessing their development.]