Chaohu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 巢湖 (Cháohú).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: chouʹho͞oʹ[1]
  • Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Chaohu

  1. (historical) A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
    • 2004 July 7, “FINDINGS”, in The Washington Post‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 June 2024, Politics‎[3]:
      Authorities have started culling poultry within a 1.9-mile radius of a chicken farm in Chaohu city in Anhui after the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu emerged near Chaohu Lake, the official said by telephone. Poultry within a 3.8-mile radius were being vaccinated.
    • 2011 September 21, Louisa Lim, “The Curious Case Of The Vanishing Chinese City”, in NPR‎[4], archived from the original on 21 September 2011, Asia‎[5]:
      Imagine a city like Los Angeles disappearing from the map completely. That's exactly what happened to Chaohu, a city in eastern China's Anhui province with a similar population — about 4 million. The people have remained, but the city has vanished in an administrative sleight of hand.
  2. A county-level city of Hefei, Anhui, China.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chao Lake”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 371, column 3
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