Mentougou
See also: Méntóugōu
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 門頭溝／门头沟 (Méntóugōu).
Pronunciation
- enPR: mǔnʹtōʹgōʹ
Proper noun
Mentougou
- 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, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on July 31, 2023, Asia Pacific:
- 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.
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Further reading
- Mentougou, Men-t'ou-kou, Mentoukou at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Mentougou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1952, column 2
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