Hou

Borrowed from Chinese 侯 (Hóu).

Hou (plural Hous)

1. A surname from Chinese.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hou is the 7395^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4500 individuals. Hou is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (94.6%) individuals.

From Mandarin 厚 (Hòu).

Hou

1. A town in Lantian, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1994, Late Quaternary Studies in Beringia and Beyond, 1950-1993: An Annotated Bibliography, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 258:

     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.]

   • [2013, Wu, Minna, 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:

     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]

   • 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:

     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.

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

     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.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hou”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205.

• Huo, ohu