"Hoihow" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: From the Postal Romanization from Cantonese 海口 (hoi² hau²). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|zh-postal|-}} Postal Romanization, {{lang|zh|海口}} 海口, {{lang|zh|海南}} 海南, {{bor|en|yue|海口}} Cantonese 海口 (hoi² hau²) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Hoihow
  1. Dated form of Haikou: the Cantonese-derived name. Tags: alt-of, dated Alternative form of: Haikou (extra: the Cantonese-derived name)
    Sense id: en-Hoihow-en-name-cJw6esug Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1925, Harry A. Franck, Roving Through Southern China, The Century Company, →OCLC, page 321 to 322:",
          "text": "But the rolling had become chronic. We rolled all day and we rolled all night, we rolled all next morning and most of the afternoon, for though we should easily have been in what passes for the harbor of Hoihow early that second day we—well, it was foggy, to be sure, and Hainan Straits are among the most dangerous in the world.",
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          "text": "By late August, over twenty-five Catholic orphanages had been attacked, and the nation-wide campaign was in full swing. Four institutions were denounced in that month alone, including those at Hoihow, Hainan Island, at Kwangchowan, Kwangtung, at Wenchow and Hangchow, Chekiang.",
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          "text": "The main city of Hainan is Hoihow, situated on the northern coast of the island opposite the Luichow Peninsula. A shallow-water port, with a population of about 50,000, Hoihow has replaced the formerly island center of Kiungchow or Kiungshan, just south of the port.",
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          "text": "In Hoihow, the provincial capital, I stayed in the French Catholic Mission. Shortly after my arrival, the French Bishop Dominique Desperben led me to the flat roof of the mission. We looked over Hoihow, a dirty sprawling city of 250,000 people, many of them living in old two-story buildings made of mud and white plaster, across the narrow Hainan Strait to the Liuchow Peninsula on the mainland.",
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