Loudi

See also: loudi and loudí

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 婁底／娄底 (Lóudǐ).

Proper noun

Loudi

1. A prefecture-level city in Hunan, China.
   • 2009 February 6, Chris Buckley, “China's rural teachers join rumble of unrest”, in Nick Macfie, Dean Yates, editors, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 May 2022, World News:

     Recently, too, growing numbers of working teachers have struck for higher pay in dozens of places, including 6,000 in Loudi, Hunan, in December, according to Liu and other reports.

   • 2010, Ann Hood, The Red Thread‎^[2], W. W. Norton, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page [3]:

     Annabelle was found early on a September morning in a box at the orphanage door in the city of Loudi in the province of Hunan.

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

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 婁底／娄底 (zh) (Lóudǐ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Loudi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1786, column 1