Meanings
alternative also Lin-k'ou
- A county of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China.
Thanks to agricultural mechanization, Linkou County has increased its per-mou yield of grain to more than 300 catties.
1973 October 18 [1973 October 10], “Heilungkiang Agricultural Mechanization”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 202, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Harbin Heilungkiang Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northeast Region, page G 21 more example
The last region to be downgraded was Linkou county outside the city of Mudanjiang in the province of Heilongjiang that borders on Russia and where the most recent spike in cases had been reported.
2020 May 7, “The Latest: UN ups appeal to fight virus to $6.7 billion”, in AP News, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2021 - A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Linkou has been chosen as the proposed site for the fair. Linkou is in the southwest section of Taipei and is adjacent to Taoyuan County.
Free China Weekly
1983 December 18, “Free China To Bid For 1988 World's Fair”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXIV, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 14 more examples
7. Chinese Petroleum Corporation completed in May a 58-kilometer, 12-inch pipeline from Keelung to Linkou. It is transporting 5,000 kl. daily.
1970, China Yearbook 1969-1970, Taipei: China Publishing Co., page 219Shu Lin Kou Station, usually referred to as Linkou, is situated on a mountain plateau approximately 16 miles northwest of Taipei, the capital of the Republic of China. It is a few miles southwest of the Tamsui River and about five miles from the China Sea.
1970 May, “ASA Taiwan”, in The Hallmark, volume 3, number 5, China Publishing Co., page 8, column 1Civilian staff members of the National Security Agency, which handles communications intelligence, are still manning a listening post at Linkou, northwest of Taipei, reportedly to monitor the Chinese Communist Air Force.
1979 May 15, Fox Butterfield, “U.S. Navy Ships Continue to Call at Taiwan's Ports”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2017, Section A, page 6After reporting to the Shanjiao Elementary School in Taoyuan's Lujhu District, the reservists began a 14-day program simulating a scenario of defending a beach near New Taipei City's Linkou District (林口) should a war break out, according to the Ministry of National Defense (MND).
2022 March 7, “400 reservists report for Army's 'toughest' training program”, in Overseas Community Affairs Council, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2023
Origin
- Mandarin林口
- EnglishLinkou
From Mandarin 林口 (Línkǒu), Wade–Giles romanization: Lin²-kʻou³.
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 林口
- 林口 (lam⁴ hau²)district in northern Taiwan
Chinese Mandarin 林口
- 林口 (Línkǒu)district in northern Taiwan
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