Han-k'ou

Hankou Hànkǒu English thumb|Map including HAN-KʻOU (HANKOW) zh 漢口 (Army Map Service AMS, 1953) Etymology From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of the en cmn 漢口// Han⁴-kʻou³.Hankou, Wade-Giles romanization Han-k’ou, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun 1 1 en Hankou. en 1912 w:Arthur Henderson Smith A General View of China The Uplift of China https://archive.org/details/upliftofchina00smit/ 1203455 5 https://archive.org/details/upliftofchina00smit/page/5/ The Yang-tzŭ, which is 60 miles wide at its mouth, with its numerous tributaries is to China what the Mississippi and Amazon are to the United States and South America. It is navigable by large oceans streamers to Han-kʻou, more than 600 miles from its mouth. en 1978 w:Arthur F. Wright The Sui Dynasty https://archive.org/details/suidynasty00arth/ New York w:Alfred A. Knopf 0-394-49187-4 78-54898 251355866 140–141 https://archive.org/details/suidynasty00arth/page/140/ Further to the east was the strategic Han River, flowing from the northwest to the southeast and entering the great river, as it still does, at Han-k'ou, "the Han's mouth." en https://archive.org/details/giantbookofbattl0000lewi/ 2006 978-1-84529-362-8 Shanghai (1937) The Giant Book of Battles Michael Calvert Jon E. Lewis London Magpie Books 128 The Western admirals decided to ignore the threat and stay put, but arrangements were made to move all Europeans up-rive for evacuation to Canton and Hong Kong, via the newly completed Han-k'ou (Hankow)-Canton railway. Capetown actually left Nanking on 21 September with a large contingent of refugees for Han-k'ou and only just missed the heavy bombing of the capital the following day. en Translations Hankou References Further reading Han-k'ou Han-k'ou