The story
- Chinese · derived from萊州 /莱州“Goosefoot Prefecture”
- English todayLaizhou
An atonal variant of the Hanyu Pinyin romanization Láizhōu, from the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 萊州 /莱州 (Láizhōu, “Goosefoot Prefecture”) from its status as the seat of that former prefecture's government.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.