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Hohhot
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English
Alternative forms
en Huhehot Huhhot Kuku Khoto Kökeqota Kokeqota
Etymology
From en mn Хөх хот, modern form of mn ᠬᠥᠬᠡᠬᠣᠲᠠ, from mn ᠬᠥᠬᠡ dark blue; (hist.) green, grue + mn ᠬᠣᠲᠠ town, city, given to the settlement by Altan Khan in the 1580s. His previous palace and monastery established outside modern Baotou in 1572 bore the same name, although it is now frequently connected to the nearby Daqing Mountains instead, whose name is similarly ambiguous between blue and green.
Pronunciation
en /hoʊˈhɒt/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Hohhot.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en capital city ar/Inner Mongolia in north-central c/China.
en Huhehaote from Mandarin Chinese
en Kweisui Guisui Kuei-sui historical historical historical
en 1980 w:Jia Lanpo zh:中国大陆上的远古居民<t:Early Man in China> https://archive.org/details/earlymaninchina0000jial_y0h3/ Beijing w:Foreign Languages Press 1087533546 4150194M 45 https://archive.org/details/earlymaninchina0000jial_y0h3/page/45/ The assemblage of stone artifacts at Dingcun represents a very important link in the evolution of China's primitive cultures. It succeeded the Gehe culture and ushered in the Dayao culture of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia and the Emaokou culture in Huairen County, Shanxi Province.
en 2008 John Man (author) John Man The Great Wall https://archive.org/details/greatwall0000manj/ w:Bantam Press 978-0-593-05574-8 809288944 35 https://archive.org/details/greatwall0000manj/page/35/ Then again, Sima Qian says that, after crossing the river, the Wall wound northward to touch a mountain north-west of Hohhot. But no wall winds northward here.
en December 7, 2019 Cow cash https://archive.org/details/the-economist-7-december-2019/ w:The Economist 433 9172 0013-0613 781372551 61–62 https://archive.org/details/the-economist-7-december-2019/page/61/ Mengniu can tap high-quality Aussie milk. And it is one in the eye for Yili, its bigger cross-town dairy rival in Hohhot, the regional capital of Inner Mongolia.
en August 6, 2022 Chris Buckley; Steven Lee Myers In Turbulent Times, Xi Builds a Security Fortress for China, and Himself w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20220806090811/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/06/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-security.html 06 August 2022 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific On National Security Education Day in April, students in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, were instructed on how to report suspicious activity.
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Related terms
en Erenhot
Translations
capital of Inner Mongolia
Arabic: ar هُوهِيهُوت m huhihūt, ar خُوخِيخَاوْتِي m ḵuḵiḵawtī
Buryat: bua Хүхэ хото
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 呼和浩特 fu1 wo4 hou6 dak6
Dungan: dng Хўхәхотә
Mandarin: cmn 呼和浩特 Hūhéhàotè, cmn 厚和豪特 Hòuhéháotè historical, cmn 厚和 Hòuhé historical, cmn 庫庫和屯 Kùkùhétún historical
Finnish: fi Hohhot
German: de Hohhot
Hungarian: hu Hohhot
Japanese: ja フフホト Fufuhoto
Kazakh: kk Көкхот
Korean: ko ^후허하오터, ko ^호흐호트
Macedonian: mk Хохот m
Manchu: mnc ᡴᡠᡴᡠ ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ, mnc ᡴ᠋ᡡᡴᡝ ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ, mnc ᡥᡠᡥᡠ ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ
Mongolian:
Classical Mongolian: cmg ᠬᠥᠬᠡ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Cyrillic: mn Хөх хот, mn Хөххот
Mongolian script: mn ᠬᠥᠬᠡᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Russian: ru Хух-Хо́то m, ru Хухэхаотэ́ m
Tibetan: bo མཁར་སྔོན
Ukrainian: uk Хух-Хо́то m
Uyghur: ug كۆكخوت, ug خۇخوت
Vietnamese: vi Hô Hòa Hạo Đặc, vi Hồi Hột
Zhuang: za Huhhozhaudwz
Further reading
en 1998 Hohhot 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 1295 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1295/ 2
Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo fen sheng dituji (Hanyu Pinyin ban) (Atlas of the People's Republic of China (Hanyu Pinyin edition)
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Enkhjargal Purev & al., "Color Terms in Mongolian Place Names: A Typological Perspective", Вопросы Ономастики, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2023), pp. 140–155.