河口

Chinese

		river(s) creek(s)	mouth(s) outlet(s)
simp. and trad. (河口)		河	口

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): hékǒu, Hékǒu

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄎㄡˇ, ㄏㄜˊ ㄎㄡˇ

(Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): хәку (həku, I-II)
Cantonese (Jyutping): ho⁴ hau²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hékǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄎㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hékǒu
  - Wade–Giles: ho²-kʻou³
  - Yale: hé-kǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: herkoou
  - Palladius: хэкоу (xɛkou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Hékǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄎㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Hékǒu
  - Wade–Giles: Ho²-kʻou³
  - Yale: Hé-kǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Herkoou
  - Palladius: Хэкоу (Xɛkou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Dungan)
  - Cyrillic and Wiktionary: хәку (həku, I-II)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xə²⁴ kʰou⁵¹/
  (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ho⁴ hau²
  - Yale: hòh háu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ho⁴ hau²
  - Guangdong Romanization: ho⁴ heo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔː²¹ hɐu̯³⁵/

Noun

河口

river mouth; estuary

Synonyms

江口 (jiāngkǒu)

Hyponyms

出海口 (chūhǎikǒu)
入海口 (rùhǎikǒu)

Derived terms

河口英語 / 河口英语 (Hékǒu Yīngyǔ)
老河口 (Lǎohékǒu)

Proper noun

河口

(～瑤族自治縣, ～縣) Hekou Yao Autonomous County (a county of Yunnan, China)
(～區) Hekou District (district in Dongying, Shandong province, China)
(～鄉) Hekou (a township in Yuan'an, Yichang, Hubei, China)
(～村) Hekou (a village in Shuanghe, Togtoh, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China)
name of several other towns, townships, subdistricts and villages in China

Japanese

Kanji in this term
河	口
か Grade: 5	こう Grade: 1
on'yomi

Etymology

From 河 (“a river”) + 口 (“a mouth”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かこー [kàkóó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ka̠ko̞ː]

Noun

河(か)口(こう) • (kakō)

the mouth of a river, an estuary

References

^ Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN