Baode

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 保德.

• IPA^(key): /baʊ.di/, /-də/, /-deɪ/

Baode

1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
   • [2002, Di Cosmo, Nicola, Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 803785057, page 52:

     The bronzes found at Ch'ao-tao-kou - a dagger with a decorated handle and a ram-head pommel, an ax with a tubular socket, and four knives with arched backs decorated with pommels in the form of a rattle or a ram-head knob - and at analogous sites, such as Lin-che-yü (Pao-te county, Shensi),³⁰ have contributed greatly to defining the Northern Zone as a distinct cultural complex.]

   • 2005, Economy, Elizabeth, “Environmental Enforcement in China”, in Kristen A. Day, editor, China's Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development‎, →ISBN, LCCN 2004017118, OCLC 56011251, OL 8055014M, page 116:

     In 2003 in Shanxi Province, the director of the Xuanbo Joint Cokeoven Plant ordered his workers to attack a television reporter from CCTV who was investigating pollution at the plant. The reporter was rescued by a SEPA delegation that arrived shortly thereafter, which then ordered the local environmental enforcement group in Baode County to protect his right to investigate.

• EABOD, abode, adobe, boaed