Hankou

Older Spelling, Han·kow

[hang-kou, hahn-koh]

noun

Pinyin, Wade-Giles.

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

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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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.

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“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.

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

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