Pao-t'ou
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 包頭/包头 (Bāotóu), Wade–Giles romanization: Pao¹-tʻou².[1]
Pronunciation
- enPR: bouʹtōʹ
Proper noun
Pao-t'ou
- Alternative form of Baotou
- 1929, Owen Lattimore, The Desert Road to Turkestan, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, OCLC 482175716, pages 82-83:
- He told us that we were about a hundred miles north and somewhat west of Pao-tʻou, and that the main road out of Pao-tʻou converged on our route.
- 1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 129, number 3, ISSN 0016-7398, JSTOR 1794831, OCLC 781786946, page 333:
- Further to the west are several new mines associated with recent railway builind and the drive to develop industrial centres in the interior. At Shih-kuai-kou (Shihkwaikow), convenient to supply the new steel-works at Pao-t'ou (Paotow), the first three shafts were sunk in 1958. Reserves there are put at 700 million tons.
- 1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings, Longman, →ISBN, LCCN 73-87225, OCLC 963067253, OL 5438328M, page 223:
- Based on local iron ore from Paiyun-opo and coal from Shih-kuai-kou, and again with ‘all-round Soviet assistance’, Pao-t’ou has been made the largest steel town on the Mongolian Plateau [26]. The role it was about to play became clear when the construction of the Pao-t’ou—Lan-chou Railway was begun in 1954 and, like that of several other vital lines, was completed well ahead of schedule [27].
- 1995 March, Joseph E. Boling, “Far East”, in Numismatic Literature, number 133, →ISBN, ISSN 0029-6031, OCLC 804504444, page 42:
- The discovery of Anyang square foot spade coin molds near Pao-t'ou in Inner Mongolia leads the author through a literature search for the several Anyang place names; he concludes that the disocvery[sic – meaning discovery] location once bore that name and is the probable source of the coins.
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Translations
Baotou — see Baotou
References
- Baotou, Wade-Giles romanization Pao-t’ou, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- “Pao-t'ou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary