Mentougou

See also: Méntóugōu

English

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 門頭溝 / 门头沟 (Méntóugōu).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mǔnʹtōʹgōʹ

Proper noun

Mentougou

  1. A district of Beijing, China.
    • 2023 July 31, Chris Buckley, “Two Dead as Heavy Rains Batter Beijing, Putting City on Alert”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 July 2023, Asia Pacific‎[2]:
      Between Saturday evening and Monday at 1 p.m., Beijing recorded an average of about 7 inches of rain. In the city’s Mentougou District, the average was over 12 inches, according to data from Beijing’s weather service, and Fangshan, another district on the capital’s outskirts, recorded even more.
    • 2023 August 1, Lily Kuo, Theodora Yu, Lillian Yang, “First the rain, then the mud: Typhoon wreaks havoc in Chinese capital”, in The Washington Post‎[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 August 2023‎[4]:
      State television showed footage of the military airdropping food and ponchos to residents in the Mentougou district in western Beijing, which has been hit especially hard.

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