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Hankou

American  
[hang-kou, hahn-koh] / ˈhæŋˈkaʊ, ˈhɑnˈkoʊ /
Older Spelling, Hankow

noun

Pinyin, Wade-Giles.
  1. a former city in E Hubei province, in E China: now part of Wuhan.


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At the Hankou funeral home on the outskirts of Wuhan, an intermittent stream of mourners and hearse drivers were arriving on Sunday.

From Reuters

The crowds, including Jin, who were especially tightly packed in front of the old clock tower at Wuhan’s Hankou Customs House, were watched by large numbers of police officers, SWAT, unidentified plain-clothed personnel, and other security workers.

From Reuters

Dr. Chang, the physician at Wuhan’s Hankou Hospital, said he went to the warehouse because a donor had sent the hospital 10,000 N95 respirators.

From New York Times

“I just wanted to cry,” said Chang Le, a doctor at Wuhan’s Hankou Hospital, in a video he posted online after the Red Cross delivered thousands of nonmedical grade masks.

From New York Times

The next day we went to Hankou Railway Station and filmed the first train departing for Beijing.

From Washington Times