Erenhot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mongolian ᠡᠷᠢᠶᠡᠡ
ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (eriyee qota) / Эрээн хот (Ereen xot).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹɪnhɒt/, /ɛˈɹɪnhɒt/

Proper noun

Erenhot

1. A county-level city in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, China.
   • 1988 March, Paul Theroux, “China Passage”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[1], volume 173, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298:

     At the border town of Erenhot, the people working beside the track look up and smile as the train enters China and begin to applaud.

   • 1993, Ian Slater, WWIII: Asian Front‎^[2] (Fiction), Fawcett Gold Medal Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 218:

     Cheng would have to stop him further down in the Gobi’s dunes around the railhead of Erenhot, and so it was to Erenhot, the railhead on the border of China’s Inner Mongolia and Mongolia, that many of the reserves from Beijing’s Sixty-fifth Army Group were now being sent.

   • 2009 August, Marjorie Liu, The Fire King‎^[3], Leisure Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 72–73:

     Erenhot—known for little more than being a border town, a required stop for motorists and trains, as well as rich fossil territory.[...]"We cannot let you be seen," she shouted to him, when the first lights of Erenhot—and Zamyn-Uud, a little farther across the border between Mongolia and China— flickered into view. "No one would understand!"

   • 2021 October 22, “Beijing launches new mass testing wave after four Covid cases found”, in France 24‎^[4], archived from the original on 22 October 2021:

     On Monday, disease-hit Erenhot in Inner Mongolia banned travel in and out of the city and ordered residents to stay at home, while an outbreak in Ejin county prompted authorities earlier this week to shutter tourist sites and restrict travel.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Erenhot.

Synonyms

• Ereen
• Erlianhaote, Erh-lien-hao-t'e
• Erlian, Erh-lien

Translations

county-level city of Inner Mongolia

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 二連浩特／二连浩特 (ji⁶ lin⁴ hou⁶ dak⁶)

  Mandarin: 二連浩特／二连浩特 (zh) (Èrliánhàotè)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Erenhot”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1160, column 2

Anagrams

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