Hou

Hou

See also: hou, hōu, hóu, hǒu, hòu, and ȟou

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Chinese 侯 (Hóu).

Proper noun

Hou (plural Hous)

1. A surname from Chinese.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hou is the 7395^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4500 individuals. Hou is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (94.6%) individuals.

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 厚 (Hòu).

Proper noun

Hou

1. A town in Lantian, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1994, Late Quaternary Studies in Beringia and Beyond, 1950-1993: An Annotated Bibliography, →ISBN, ISSN 0707-2651, OCLC 31514810, page 258:

     The present paper deals with a collection of mammalian fossils found in situ by a field team of IVPP in the late Pleistocene sandy clays interbeding [sic] with sands and gravels along the Laochihegou valley in Houzhen Commune, Lantian District, Shensi.]

   • 2011, Qian Xue; Zhiguo Rao; Suping Wang; Pingyu Zhang; Fahu Chen, “Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic study of carbonate along a loess/paleosol section in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, on the southeastern edge of the Chinese Loess Plateau”, in Environmental Earth Sciences, volume 64, DOI:10.1007/s12665-010-0843-5, ISSN 1866-6280, OCLC 712805477, page 238:

     The study profile, an outcrop formed by road building (Fig. 2), is at an altitude of about 920 m in west Hou Town (N34°16', E109°27'), Lantian County.

   • 2013 March 13, “Four Agriculture Demonstration Zones to Be Built in Shaanxi”, in Shaanxi Province Department of Commerce‎, archived from the original on May 15, 2021:

     Key projects are Lantian modern broiler industrial park, Dazhai bungeana breeding base, Hou Town walnut industrial park, Bailu Plain film city, and Hou Town mountain biking theme park.

Translations

town

Chinese: Mandarin: 厚 (zh) (Hòu) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hou”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205.

Anagrams

• Huo, ohu