Meanings
alternative Fu-kou · alternative Fukou
- A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
Shuping Wang was born Zou Shuping on Oct. 20, 1959, in Fugou County, Henan. Her mother, Huang Yunling, was a village doctor; her father, Zou Bangyan, was a math teacher who had been a soldier in the Nationalist forces that were defeated by Mao Zedong’s Communists.
2019 September 30, Chris Buckley, “Shuping Wang, Who Helped Expose China’s Rural AIDS Crisis, Dies at 59”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Sep 20191 more example
The philosopher-official Ch’eng Hao (1033-1084), for example, won much esteem from officialdom and the intelligentsia when, as the magistrate of Fu-kou county, he stubbornly refused to implement the pao-chia system which was one of the prized projects of Emperior^([sic – meaning Emperor]) Shen-tsung (r. 1068-1085) and his reformist Prime Minister Wang An-shih (1019-1086).
[1965, Franklin W. Houn, “The Chinese Monarch and Limits on Royal Power”, in Chinese Political Traditions, Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47
Origin
- Mandarin扶溝 /扶沟
- EnglishFugou
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 扶溝 /扶沟.
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 扶溝 /扶沟
- 扶溝 /扶沟county
Chinese Mandarin 扶溝 /扶沟
- 扶溝 /扶沟county
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Fugou. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fugou
“Fugou.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fugou. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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