Hekou

• (from Wade-Giles) Ho-k'ou
• (postal romanization) Hokow

From Mandarin 河口 (Hékǒu).

Hekou

1. A Yao autonomous county in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China, near Lào Cai, Vietnam.
   • [2001, Hosie, Alexander, “Ta-chien-lu to the Tibetan frontier and back”, in Mr Hosie's Journey to Tibet, 1904: A Report by Mr A. Hosie, His Majesty's Consul at Chengtu, on a Journey from Chengtu to the Eastern Frontier of Tibet‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82:

     On arrival at the hamlet of Ying-kuan-chai, over-looked by a ruined Tibetan fort, which we reached by a wooden bridge spanning the stream and by following the latter’s right bank to the end of the valley, I held a meeting of all the drivers, and informed them that the Commissary at Ta-chien-lu had distinctly stated to me that the animals supplied to me at Ta-chien-lu would take me right through to Ho-k’ou, a five days’ march, and that I would have no trouble with change of transport as far as that place.]

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hekou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1261, column 3