Hankouとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Hankow
• (from Wade-Giles) Han-k'ou
• Hankhow

語源

From the Mandarin 漢口／汉口 (Hànkǒu, “Mouth of the Han River”).

固有名詞

Hankou

1. A former city and treaty port; since 1949 an area in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
   • 2018 April 10, Roberts, Sam, “Marcia Thompson, Prudent Promoter of the Arts, Dies at 94”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331, OCLC 1645522, archived from the original on 11 April 2018, Obituaries‎^[2]:

     Marcia Aldrich Thompson was born on Oct. 2, 1923, in the Central Chinese city of Hankou (now part of Wuhan) where her father, Newell, was an executive with the Standard Oil Company of New York.

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hankou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1229, column 3

語源

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 漢口 (Han⁴-kʻou³).^[1]

固有名詞

Han-k'ou

1. Alternative form of Hankou
   • 1912, Smith, Arthur Henderson, “A General View of China”, in The Uplift of China‎^[1], →OCLC, 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.

   • 1978, Wright, Arthur F., The Sui Dynasty‎^[2], New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 140-141:

     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."

   • 2006, Michael Calvert, Jon E. Lewis, editor, Shanghai (1937) (The Giant Book of Battles)‎^[3], London: Magpie Books, →ISBN, page 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Han-k'ou.

参照

Further reading

• “Han-k'ou”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Han-k'ou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.