Baokang

See also: Bǎokāng

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保康 (Bǎokāng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bouʹkängʹ[1]

Proper noun

Baokang

  1. A county of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
    • [1967, J. D. Frodsham, “Notes to the Poems”, in The Murmuring Stream: The Life and Works of the Chinese Nature Poet Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433), Duke of K’ang-Lo‎[2], volume 2, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, →OCLC, page 192:
      7. The river Chü 沮 rises in Pao-k’ang 保康 county, Hupei, and runs through Yüan-an 遠安 county where it is joined by the Chang 漳.]
    • 2010, Hong De-Yuan, “Introduction”, in Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography‎[3], Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:
      We also found the individual plant from which the type specimen of P. baokangensis was collected. This peony, cultivated beside a farmer’s house in Huoping Township, Baokang County, turned out to be a hybrid between P. rockii subsp. rockii and P. qiui.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Baokang.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Paokang or Pao-k’ang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1425, column 1

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