Hai-k'ou

Haikou English thumb|Map including HAI-K'OU (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1975) Etymology From en cmn 海口 Hǎikǒu, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hai³-kʻou³.en December 10, 1943 Additional Terms Chinese Phrase Book TM 30-633 https://books.google.com/books?id=HjVkAAAAMAAJ Washington, D. C. w:United States War Department 9030056 226, 227 https://books.google.com/books?id=HjVkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA227 1, 16 English PronunciationWade System Chinese WritingHai-k’ou (Koikow) HAˇEE koˇOOhai³ kʻou³ zh 海口Haikou, Wade-Giles romanization Hai-k’ou, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun 1 1 en Haikou. en https://archive.org/details/problemsofcommun17n2unse_1968/ 1968 Social Stratification Victor C. Funnell 17 2 w:Problems of Communism 18 Under this system, the country is divided into eleven wage regions. Thus, there are eleven different variations of the thirty wage-grades of civil servants. The differential between each regional scale is about 3 percent, making a disparity of 30 percent between the highest and the lowest scales. There has been scant information in the Chinese press as to how the scales are determined or where the eleven regions are. The fist or highest scale is reported to be in force at Hai-k'ou on Hainan Island, the second in Canton and Shanghai, and the third in Peking and Tientsin. en 1972 Liu Wu-Chi Su Manshu Su Man-shu https://archive.org/details/sumanshu0191liuw/ New York w:Twayne Publishers 70-120494 494965 64 https://archive.org/details/sumanshu0191liuw/page/64/ As for Fletcher himself, his enthusiasm for Chinese art and poetry grew with the years. Later, while a consul at Hoihow (Hai-k’ou, a major seaport on Hainan Island), he published in Shanghai two volumes of translations: Gems of Chinese Verse (1918) and More Gems of Chinese Poetry (1919). en 1977 Sarasin Viraphol The Height of the Sino-Siamese Junk Trade in the Second and Third Bangkok Reigns, 1809–1833 Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese Trade, 1652–1853 https://archive.org/details/tributeprofitsin0000sara/ w:Harvard University Press 0-674-80915-7 77-9447 3016868 188 https://archive.org/details/tributeprofitsin0000sara/page/188/ In addition, the sailing distance would permit them ample time to trade at Bangkok annually; the distance between Ch'iung-chou or Hai-k'ou and Bangkok required only eight or nine days of sailing. Translations Haikou References