HOU

H4O1U1

proper noun

A surname from Mandarin.

Less commonScrabble 6

Meanings

HOU1

proper noun
  1. abbreviationhobbiesAbbreviation of Houston (in Texas).

Hou2

proper nounHou (plural Hous)

plural Hous

  1. A surname from Mandarin.
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    Comrade Hou Zongbin came to the environmental sanitation transfer station on (Ninggong) Road, Erqi District, and warmly clasped hands with two workers (Chu Yuwen) and (Zhao Dongfang), voicing his thanks to more than 2,400 environmental sanitation workers throughout the city, including these two, who had been working so hard that the people in the provincial capital could enjoy a happy, civilized, and peaceful Spring Festival, and wishing them good health and family happiness.

    1991 February 21 [1991 February 15], “Hou Zongbin Visits Grass-Roots Workers”, in Daily Report: China, number 91-035, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Zhengzhou Henan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, Regional Affairs, page 39, column 1

    According to the court, Tseng claimed the money to pay the salaries of three county council aides, but Tseng colluded with his wife, surnamed Hou (侯), to hire their relatives to pose as aides and pocket the money themselves. It was found that one of the aides continued to receive a salary from April to July 2017 after having quit and remitted the money to Hou.

    2024 March 27, Flor Wang, H.E. Hsieh, “Ex-Nantou County councilor's 7.5-year fraud sentence upheld”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 May 2024, Society

Hou3

proper noun
  1. A town in Lantian, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

    The study profile, an outcrop formed by road building (Fig. 2), is at an altitude of about 920 m in west Hou Town (N34°16', E109°27'), Lantian County.

    2011, Qian Xue, Zhiguo Rao, Suping Wang, Pingyu Zhang, Fahu Chen, “Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic study of carbonate along a loess/paleosol section in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, on the southeastern edge of the Chinese Loess Plateau”, in Environmental Earth Sciences, volume 64, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 238
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    The present paper deals with a collection of mammalian fossils found in situ by a field team of IVPP in the late Pleistocene sandy clays interbeding [sic] with sands and gravels along the Laochihegou valley in Houzhen Commune, Lantian District, Shensi.

    [1994, Late Quaternary Studies in Beringia and Beyond, 1950-1993: An Annotated Bibliography, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 258

    Shanghou is also mentioned on the Buzhi ding 不栺鼎 (JC: 2735), which was excavated from the tomb no.3 in Fufeng, Shaanxi and records that the Zhou King went to the garrison at Shanghou.⁸⁴ In a recent study, Shanghou is identified with the present-day Houzhen 厚鎮, located between the Lantian 藍田 county and the Weinan 渭南 county in Shaanxi province.⁸⁵

    [2013, Minna Wu, On the Periphery of a Great “Empire”: Secondary Formation of States and Their Material Basis in the Shandong Peninsula during the Late Bronze Age, ca. 1000-500 B.C.E, Columbia University, →DOI, page 164

    Key projects are Lantian modern broiler industrial park, Dazhai bungeana breeding base, Hou Town walnut industrial park, Bailu Plain film city, and Hou Town mountain biking theme park.

    2013 March 13, “Four Agriculture Demonstration Zones to Be Built in Shaanxi”, in Shaanxi Province Department of Commerce, archived from the original on 15 May 2021

    During the winter vacation, Starflag-Bearers cooperated with Xi'an Youth Palace to provide volunteer teaching for primary and middle school students in Dongju Village, Houzhen Town, Lantian County, Xi 'an, delivering academic guidance for the children and witnessing their development.

    [2023 February 24, Deng BuGe, Yu Junhao, Feng Ze, Han Huichun, “Documentary on Online Volunteer Teaching and Rural Revitalization of Starflag-Bearers of QMES”, in Liu Yang, transl., edited by Cheng Yin, Northwestern Polytechnical University, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2023

Origin

Hou · proper noun

  1. Chinese侯
  2. EnglishHou

Borrowed from Chinese 侯 (Hóu).

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Hou · proper noun

From Mandarin 厚 (Hòu).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 厚
  • 厚 (Hòu)town

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HOU. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/HOU

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“HOU.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/HOU. Accessed November 2, 2026.

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