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Erenhot
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from en mn ᠡᠷᠢᠶᠡᠡ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ / mn Эрээн хот.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɛɹɪnhɒt/ /ɛˈɹɪnhɒt/
Proper noun
en Q1001036en county-level city league/Xilingol ar/Inner Mongolia c/China.
en Ereen Erlianhaote Erlian
en 1988 March w:Paul Theroux China Passage https://archive.org/details/edg-ng-1981/edg%20NG%201988-03%20173-3%20Mar/ w:National Geographic Magazine 173 3 0027-9358 643483454 298 https://archive.org/details/edg-ng-1981/edg%20NG%201988-03%20173-3%20Mar/page/n4/ At the border town of Erenhot, the people working beside the track look up and smile as the train enters China and begin to applaud.
en 1993 Ian Slater WWIII: Asian Front https://archive.org/details/wwiii00slat/ Fiction Fawcett Gold Medal Books 0-449-14854-8 970449591 218 https://archive.org/details/wwiii00slat/page/218/ Cheng would have to stop him further down in the Gobi’s dunes around the railhead of Erenhot, and so it was to Erenhot, the railhead on the border of China’s Inner Mongolia and Mongolia, that many of the reserves from Beijing’s Sixty-fifth Army Group were now being sent.
en https://archive.org/details/firekingdirk00lium/ 2009 August w:Marjorie Liu The Fire King w:Leisure Books 0-8439-5940-1 321016560 72–73 https://archive.org/details/firekingdirk00lium/page/72/ Erenhot—known for little more than being a border town, a required stop for motorists and trains, as well as rich fossil territory.[...]"We cannot let you be seen," she shouted to him, when the first lights of Erenhot—and Zamyn-Uud, a little farther across the border between Mongolia and China— flickered into view. "No one would understand!"
en 22 October 2021 Beijing launches new mass testing wave after four Covid cases found https://web.archive.org/web/20211022132214/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211022-beijing-launches-new-mass-testing-wave-after-four-covid-cases-found 22 October 2021 w:France 24 On Monday, disease-hit Erenhot in Inner Mongolia banned travel in and out of the city and ordered residents to stay at home, while an outbreak in Ejin county prompted authorities earlier this week to shutter tourist sites and restrict travel.
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Translations
county-level city of Inner Mongolia
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 二連浩特 ji6 lin4 hou6 dak6
Mandarin: cmn 二連浩特 Èrliánhàotè
Mongolian: mn Эрээн хот, mn ᠡᠷᠢᠶᠡᠡ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Further reading
en 2008 Erenhot Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1160 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1160/ 2
Anagrams
en eehnort thereon