fu1 wo4 hou6 dak6呼和浩特
Jyutpingfu1 wo4 hou6 dak6
Yalefū wòh houh dahk
Definition
Hohhot, a city in northeast China and the capital of Inner Mongolia.
neutralplaces
How it's used
Geographic names of this type are treated as proper nouns and are used without any special particles or classifiers in most contexts. When discussing travel, it is common to pair the city name with verbs like 去 or 飛去 to indicate movement toward the destination.
Examples
Do you know where Hohhot is?
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Grammar guides
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