河口

河口

Chinese

		river(s) creek(s)	mouth(s) outlet(s)
simp. and trad. (河口)		河	口

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): hékǒu, Hékǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄎㄡˇ, ㄏㄜˊ ㄎㄡˇ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): хәку (həku, I-II)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ho⁴ hau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hékǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄎㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hékǒu
    • Wade–Giles: ho²-kʻou³
    • Yale: hé-kǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: herkoou
    • Palladius: хэкоу (xɛkou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Hékǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄎㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Hékǒu
    • Wade–Giles: Ho²-kʻou³
    • Yale: Hé-kǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Herkoou
    • Palladius: Хэкоу (Xɛkou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: хәку (həku, I-II)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xə²⁴ kʰou⁵¹/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ho⁴ hau²
    • Yale: hòh háu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ho⁴ hau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ho⁴ heo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔː²¹ hɐu̯³⁵/

Noun

河口

1. river mouth; estuary

Synonyms

• 江口 (jiāngkǒu)

Hyponyms

• 出海口 (chūhǎikǒu)
• 入海口 (rùhǎikǒu)

Derived terms

老河口 (Lǎohékǒu)

河口英語／河口英语 (Hékǒu Yīngyǔ)

Proper noun

河口

1. (～瑤族自治縣, ～縣) Hekou Yao Autonomous County (a county of Yunnan, China)
2. (～區) Hekou District (district in Dongying, Shandong province, China)
3. (～鄉) Hekou (a township in Yuan'an, Yichang, Hubei, China)
4. (～村) Hekou (a village in Shuanghe, Togtoh, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China)
5. name of several other towns, townships, subdistricts and villages in China

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
河	口
か Grade: 5	こう Grade: 1
on’yomi

Etymology

From 河 (“a river”) + 口 (“a mouth”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かこー [kàkóó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ko̞ː]

Noun

河(か)口(こう) • (kakō) 

1. the mouth of a river, an estuary

References

1. 1960, Tetsuo Hirayama (平山輝男, editor), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”), (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN