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Linkou
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English
Linkou District, New Taipei
Alternative forms
en Lin-k'ou also from _ Wade-Giles
Etymology
From en cmn 林口, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Lin²-kʻou³.
Pronunciation
lĭn′kō′Linkow or Lin-k’ou 1059 3
en Lin kou
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Mudanjiang p/Heilongjiang c/China.
en 18 October 1973 10 October 1973 Heilungkiang Agricultural Mechanization Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 202 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043544504&seq=665 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Harbin Heilungkiang Provincial Service cmn 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: Northeast Region G 2 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043544504&seq=706 Thanks to agricultural mechanization, Linkou County has increased its per-mou yield of grain to more than 300 catties.
en May 7, 2020 The Latest: UN ups appeal to fight virus to $6.7 billion https://web.archive.org/web/20211022080740/https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-global-trade-elections-brazil-virus-outbreak-82e7d8b255fb72df9da773d1ff42d63c 22 October 2021 https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-global-trade-elections-brazil-virus-outbreak-82e7d8b255fb72df9da773d1ff42d63c w:AP News The last region to be downgraded was Linkou county outside the city of Mudanjiang in the province of Heilongjiang that borders on Russia and where the most recent spike in cases had been reported.
en district city/New Taipei c/Taiwan.
en https://archive.org/details/chinayearbook0000unse/ 1970 China Yearbook 1969-1970 China Publishing Co. Taipei 219 https://archive.org/details/chinayearbook0000unse/page/219/ 7. Chinese Petroleum Corporation completed in May a 58-kilometer, 12-inch pipeline from Keelung to Linkou. It is transporting 5,000 kl. daily.
en 1970 May ASA Taiwan The Hallmark China Publishing Co. 3 5 https://archive.org/details/hallmark3519arli/ 8 https://archive.org/details/hallmark3519arli/page/8/ 1 Shu Lin Kou Station, usually referred to as Linkou, is situated on a mountain plateau approximately 16 miles northwest of Taipei, the capital of the Republic of China. It is a few miles southwest of the Tamsui River and about five miles from the China Sea.
en May 15, 1979 w:Fox Butterfield U.S. Navy Ships Continue to Call at Taiwan's Ports w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20170702171902/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/15/archives/us-navy-ships-continue-to-call-at-taiwans-ports-ustaiwan-relations.html 0362-4331 1645522 Section A 6 Civilian staff members of the National Security Agency, which handles communications intelligence, are still manning a listening post at Linkou, northwest of Taipei, reportedly to monitor the Chinese Communist Air Force.
en December 18, 1983 Free China To Bid For 1988 World's Fair zh:自由中國週報<t:Free China Weekly> https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-12-18_24_50/ XXIV 50 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-12-18_24_50/page/n2/ 1 Linkou has been chosen as the proposed site for the fair. Linkou is in the southwest section of Taipei and is adjacent to Taoyuan County.
en 2022/03/07 400 reservists report for Army's 'toughest' training program https://web.archive.org/web/20230305145805/https://english.ocac.gov.tw/ocac/eng/pages/detail.aspx?nodeid=329&pid=36813087 05 March 2023 w:Overseas Community Affairs Council After reporting to the Shanjiao Elementary School in Taoyuan's Lujhu District, the reservists began a 14-day program simulating a scenario of defending a beach near New Taipei City's Linkou District (zh 林口) should a war break out, according to the Ministry of National Defense (MND).
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Translations
district in northern Taiwan
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 林口
Hokkien: nan-hbl 林口 Nâ-kháu
Mandarin: cmn 林口 Línkǒu
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Linkou 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 1746 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1746/ 2
Anagrams
en iklnou ulikon
en 2-syllable words