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HOU¹

proper noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Houston (in Texas).

Hou²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Chinese 侯 (Hóu).

proper noun Hous

  1. A surname from Mandarin. Comrade Hou Zongbin came to the environmental sanitation transfer station on (Ninggong) Road, Erqi District, and warmly clasped hands with two workers (Chu Yuwen) and (Zhao Dongfang), voicing his thanks to more than 2,400 environmental sanitation workers throughout the city, including these two, who

Hou³

Where it comes from

From Mandarin 厚 (Hòu).

proper noun

  1. A town in Lantian, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. The present paper deals with a collection of mammalian fossils found in situ by a field team of IVPP in the late Pleistocene sandy clays interbeding [sic] with sands and gravels along the Laochihegou valley in Houzhen Commune, Lantian District, Shensi.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: shan, ming, thick, hau, bergstrom, rigby, bragg, lily, zhang, chen, yang, cameron, wang, investment, development, said

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name town

中文厚 Hòu

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"HOU." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hou. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

HOU. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/hou

Chicago

"HOU." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/hou.

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@misc{hou_2026,
  title = {HOU},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hou},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}