Baotou

Baotou

See also: bāotóu

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Pao-t'ou
• Paotow

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 包頭／包头 (Bāotóu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʊ.toʊ/

Proper noun

Baotou

1. A prefecture-level city, the largest city in Inner Mongolia, in northern China.
   • [1918 April, Gilbert, Rodney, “Pneumonic Plague in China”, in Asia‎, volume XVIII, number 4, American Asiatic Association, page 344, columns 2, 3:

     Moving west from Paotowchen there is only one highway, which many camel trains from Kansu follow in winter, but which is almost deserted in summer when the Yellow River is ice free. This road leads through Santaoho, a Roman Catholic Mission village near the elbow of the river, through Shihtsuishan, where there is a carefully guarded pass and a large garrison, and on into the populous Ninghsia district of Kansu, altogether an eighteen day journey of about 1,300 11 through thinly settled country in which a pestilence would travel with difficulty and in which it could have been most effectually checked at any of half a dozen points.]

Translations

a prefecture-level city in northern China

Arabic: بَاوْتُو‎ m (bawtū) Chinese: Cantonese: 包頭 (yue), 包头 (baau1 tau4) Mandarin: 包頭／包头 (zh) (Bāotóu) Min Nan: 包頭, 包头 (Pau-thâu) Hungarian: Paotou Japanese: 包頭 (ほうとう, Hōtō), パオトウ (Paotō) Korean: 바오터우 (Baoteou) Macedonian: Ба́отоу n (Báotou) Russian: Баото́у m (Baotóu) (indeclinable) Spanish: Baotou (es) Vietnamese: Bao Đầu

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Spanish

Proper noun

Baotou ?

1. Baotou (a prefecture-level city, the largest city in Inner Mongolia, in northern China)