Baokang

See also: Bǎokāng

English

Alternative forms

Paokang (Postal Romanization)
Pao-k'ang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保康 (Bǎokāng).

Proper noun

Baokang

A county of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
- 2010, Hong De-Yuan, “Introduction”, in Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography‎, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:
  We also found the individual plant from which the type specimen of P. baokangensis was collected. This peony, cultivated beside a farmer’s house in Huoping Township, Baokang County, turned out to be a hybrid between P. rockii subsp. rockii and P. qiui.

Translations

county in central China

Chinese:
Mandarin: 保康 (zh) (Bǎokāng)
Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Baokang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308, column 2

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