k'ou

Updated: April 30, 2025

In the market-places, and near the great gates of the city, where Peking carts and camels from beyond the passes k'ou wai, to use the correct vernacular jostle one another, the dust has become damnable beyond words, and there can be no health possibly in us.

- Indiscreet Letters From Peking : Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation

Here, a mighty Chinese gentry faction under the leadership of the Ts'ui family had united with the Taoist leader K'ou Ch'ien-chih against another faction under the leadership of the crown prince.

Wolfram Eberhard - A History of China

As Wang Tun was watching the career of the chalice, Hsü disappeared and escaped. When he reached Lu-chiang K'ou, in Anhui, he boarded a boat, which two dragons towed into the offing and then raised into the air. In an instant they had borne it to the Lü Shan Mountains, to the south of Kiukiang, in Kiangsi. The perplexed boatman opened the window of his boat and took a furtive look out.

E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner - Myths and Legends of China