Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Erlianhaote (Erenhot)
Somehow, you must get on the International Express for Ulan Bator this afternoon at five-thirty. Buy a ticket to Erh-lien-hao-t’e, but you must get off at the village of Sai-han-t’a-la. On no account go all the way to Erh-lien.
1978, Chih-yen Hsia, chapter 9, in Liang-lao Dee, transl., The Coldest Winter in Peking, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1562 more examples
Spotlights were directed on the train until, half-way, Chinese spotlights took over. But once out of Mongolia the oppressive atmosphere lifted immediately. The Chinese border station was called Erh-lien-hao-t’e and it was decked out with fairy lights.
1986, Bob Geldof, “Divers Bends”, in Is That It?, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 174The Trans-Mongolian Railway (completed 1955) links the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, near the northern edge of the plateau, with Ulan-Ude in the republic of Buryatia in Russia and with Erh-lien-hao-t’e (Erenhot), northwest of Beijing in China.
2011, “Major and Notable Semiarid Regions of the World”, in John P. Rafferty, editor, Deserts and Steppes, 1st edition, Encyclopedia Britannica, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 210
Origin
- Mandarin二連浩特 /二连浩特
- EnglishErh-lien-hao-t'e
From Mandarin 二連浩特 /二连浩特 (Èrliánhàotè), Wade–Giles romanization: Êrh⁴-lien²-hao⁴-tʻê⁴.
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