Hongkou

• (obsolete) Hung-k'ou

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 虹口 (Hóngkǒu, literally “Rainbow Mouth”), a variation of earlier 洪口 (Hóngkǒu, literally “Flood Mouth”).

Hongkou

1. A creek in Shanghai, China.
2. A district of Shanghai, China.
   • 2013 May 7, “Netanyahu: Jewish people capable of own defense”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 25 May 2022:

     On Tuesday, Netanyahu and his wife toured Shanghai’s Ohel Moshe synagogue in the Hongkou district that was home to many of the 18,000 Jews granted refuge in Shanghai from the horrors of Nazi persecution.

• (from Shanghainese) Hongkew

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hongkou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1304, column 3

• hookgun, konghou

• Hong-Kéou

From Mandarin 虹口 (Hóngkǒu).

Hongkou m

1. Hongkou (a district of Shanghai, China)

   Holonym: Puxi