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Baokang
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Bǎokāng
English
Baokang County
Alternative forms
en Paokang Postal
en Pao-k'ang Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - 保康.
Pronunciation
bouʹkängʹen 1952 Paokang or Pao-k’ang Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1425 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1425/ 1
en Bao kang
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Xiangyang p/Hubei c/China.
en 1967 J. D. Frodsham Notes to the Poems The Murmuring Stream: The Life and Works of the Chinese Nature Poet Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433), Duke of K’ang-Lo https://archive.org/details/murmuringstream0000unse/ 2 Kuala Lumpur w:University of Malaya Press 468620 192 https://archive.org/details/murmuringstream0000unse/page/192/ 7. The river Chü zh 沮 rises in Pao-k’ang zh 保康 county, Hupei, and runs through Yüan-an zh 遠安 county where it is joined by the Chang zh 漳. on
en 2010 Hong De-Yuan Introduction Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography https://archive.org/details/peoniesofworldta0000hong/ w:Kew Publishing 978-1-84246-392-5 642991004 26034917M 1 https://archive.org/details/peoniesofworldta0000hong/page/1/ We also found the individual plant from which the type specimen of P. baokangensis was collected. This peony, cultivated beside a farmer’s house in Huoping Township, Baokang County, turned out to be a hybrid between P. rockii subsp. rockii and P. qiui.
en
Translations
county in central China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 保康
Mandarin: cmn 保康
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Baokang Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 308 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/308/ 2