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Mentougou
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Méntóugōu
English
Mentougou District
Alternative forms
en Men-t'ou-kou Mentoukou Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 門頭溝.
Pronunciation
mŭn′tō′gō′Mentowkow or Men-t’ou-kou 1185 2
en Men tou gou
Proper noun
en district city/Beijing c/China.
en July 31, 2023 Chris Buckley Two Dead as Heavy Rains Batter Beijing, Putting City on Alert w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230731102950/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/world/asia/china-rain-beijing-flooding-typhoon.html July 31, 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/world/asia/china-rain-beijing-flooding-typhoon.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Between Saturday evening and Monday at 1 p.m., Beijing recorded an average of about 7 inches of rain. In the city’s Mentougou District, the average was over 12 inches, according to data from Beijing’s weather service, and Fangshan, another district on the capital’s outskirts, recorded even more.
en August 1, 2023 Lily Kuo; Theodora Yu; Lillian Yang First the rain, then the mud: Typhoon wreaks havoc in Chinese capital w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20230805113006/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/01/beijing-flood-rain-typhoon-china/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/01/beijing-flood-rain-typhoon-china/ August 05, 2023 0190-8286 2269358 State television showed footage of the military airdropping food and ponchos to residents in the Mentougou district in western Beijing, which has been hit especially hard.
Translations
district
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 門頭溝
Mandarin: cmn 門頭溝 Méntóugōu
Japanese: ja 門頭溝 もんとうこう, Montōkō
Manchu: mnc ᠮᡝᠨ ᡨᡝᠣ ᡤᡝᠣ
References
Further reading
Mentougou, Men-t'ou-kou, Mentoukou
en 1998 Mentougou 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 1952 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1952/ 2
en 3-syllable words