Haikou

Hai-k'ou English Alternative forms en Hai-k'ou Wade-Giles Etymology From en cmn - 海口 Hǎikǒu. Pronunciation hī′kō′Hoihow 793 1 Hoihow (hoiʹhouʹ), Mandarin Hai-k’ou (hīʹkōʹ),Hai-k’ou or Hoi·how 302 2 en Hai kou Proper noun en Q189823 en The <<provincial capital>> and most populous <<prefecture-level city>> of <<p/Hainan>> province, <<c/China>>; located on the north side of Hainan island. en March 25, 1993 w:Sheryl WuDunn Haikou Journal; For Treasure (and Pleasure), Their Special Island w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150526093353/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/25/world/haikou-journal-for-treasure-and-pleasure-their-special-island.html 26 May 2015 0362-4331 1645522 World Hainan Island, of which Haikou is the capital, is a tropical province that China has proclaimed its newest and largest special economic zone. Partly because it is separated from the Chinese mainland by a 13-mile strip of water, the authorities give it special dispensation to stray from economic and social orthodoxy. Synonyms en Hoihow Postal Cantonese Translations a city in China Arabic: ar هَايْكُو m, ar خَايْكُو m Chinese: Cantonese: yue 海口 hoi2 hau2 Mandarin: cmn 海口 Hǎikǒu Finnish: fi Haikou Hindi: hi हाइकोऊ f Hungarian: hu Hajkou Japanese: ja 海口 かいこう, Kaikō Korean: ko ^하이커우, ko ^해구 Macedonian: mk Ха́јкоу n Russian: ru Хайко́у m Vietnamese: vi Hải Khẩu Zhuang: za Haijgouj References Further reading en 1998 Haikou Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1214 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1214/ 1