Ho-t'ien
English
Map including HO-TIEN (HO-T'IEN) (KHOTAN) (ATC, 1971)
Etymology
From Mandarin 和田 (Hétián) Wade-Giles romanization: Ho²-tʻien².
Pronunciation
- enPR: hôʹtyěnʹ
Proper noun
Ho-t'ien
- Alternative form of Hetian (Hotan)
- 1923, The Travels of Fa-Hsien, Cambridge University Press, OCLC 760417755, OL 17206069M, pages 90-91:
- Again, Yü-t'ien or Ho-t'ien (Khotan), as it is now called, has been from time immemorial devoted to Mahometanism, as is amply borne out by Illustrated Notices of Western Countries, printed by Imperial authority.
- 1974, Famous Explorers, David & Charles, →ISBN, OCLC 916002, OL 5093098M, page 102:
- His last journey, begun in 1883, took him to the sources of the Hwang-ho, then to Lo-pu Po and finally to Ho-t'ien (Khotan), on the ancient Silk Road. He died at Karakol (near Lake Issyk-Kul), now named Przheval'sk after him.
- 1987, Arthur C. Hasiotis, Jr., Soviet Political, Economic, and Military Involvement in Sinkiang from 1928 to 1949, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, LCCN 87-8368, OCLC 906492918, OL 2379822M, pages 102-103:
- In September of 1937, two regiments of Soviet Kirghiz troops and one regiment of Russian troops equipped with forty airplanes and twenty tanks entered Sinkiang from Atushe and attacked Pa-ch'u, dividing Ma Hu-shan's 36th Corps into two sections. In October one Kirghiz regiment entered P'i-shan, and Ma Hu-shan fled to India. Kirghiz and Russian forces were now in occupation of Hami and poised to strike at Ho-t'ien in the extreme south of Sinkiang.
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Translations
Hetian — see Hetian
Further reading
- “Ho-t'ien”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Ho-t'ien”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “Ho-t'ien” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
Anagrams
- Hinote, ethion, theion, thieno, thione