Meanings
- historicalA prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
Authorities have started culling poultry within a 1.9-mile radius of a chicken farm in Chaohu city in Anhui after the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu emerged near Chaohu Lake, the official said by telephone. Poultry within a 3.8-mile radius were being vaccinated.
2004 July 7, “FINDINGS”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2024, Politics1 more example
Imagine a city like Los Angeles disappearing from the map completely. That's exactly what happened to Chaohu, a city in eastern China's Anhui province with a similar population — about 4 million. The people have remained, but the city has vanished in an administrative sleight of hand.
2011 September 21, Louisa Lim, “The Curious Case Of The Vanishing Chinese City”, in NPR, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2011, Asia
Origin
- Mandarin巢湖
- EnglishChaohu
From Mandarin 巢湖 (Cháohú).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 巢湖
- 巢湖 (caau⁴ wu⁴)county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 巢湖
- 巢湖 (Cháohú)county-level city
Japanese 巣湖
- 巣湖 (Sōko)county-level city
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Chaohu
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