Huairou

Huairou

See also: huáiróu

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 懷柔／怀柔 (Huáiróu).

Proper noun

Huairou

1. A district of Beijing, China.
   • [1990, Waldron, Arthur, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 88-32689, OCLC 243442537, OL 2054642M, page 236:

     Recent reports attribute the first walls in the Mu-t’ien-yü valley in Huai-jou county near Peking to the Northern Sung.]

Translations

district

Chinese: Mandarin: 懷柔／怀柔 (zh) (Huáiróu) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huairou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1320, column 3