Hankou

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Hankou

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From the Mandarin 漢口 /汉口 (Hànkǒu, “Mouth of the Han River”).

proper noun Hankow · Han-k'ou · Hankhow

  1. A former city and treaty port; since 1949 an area in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China, split among the districts of Jiang'an, Jianghan and Qiaokou. 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.

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name Former city

中文漢口 /汉口 Hànkǒu
РусскийХанько́у Xanʹkóu

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"Hankou." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hankou. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{hankou_2026,
  title = {Hankou},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hankou},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}