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- Mandarin · borrowed from漢口 /汉口“Mouth of the Han River”
- English todayHankou
From the Mandarin 漢口 /汉口 (Hànkǒu, “Mouth of the Han River”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A former city and treaty port; since 1949 an area in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China, split among the districts of Jiang'an, Jianghan and Qiaokou. Full definition →