Huanggu

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 皇姑 (Huánggū).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hwängʹgo͞oʹ

Proper noun

Huanggu

  1. A district of Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
    • 2022, Wei Cui, The Administrative Foundations of the Chinese Fiscal State[1], Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 40:
      Consider the story of one lowly tax bureau in the district of Huanggu, one of the ten districts in Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning Province in northeast China. In 1995, the Huanggu GS branch bureau had jurisdiction over a taxpayer population that included close to 8,000 private firms.

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