五口通商
Traditional form:
五口通商
Pinyin (reading):
wǔkǒutōngshāng
Definitions:
- the five treaty ports forced on Qing China by the 1842 treaty of Nanjing 南京條約／南京条约 that concluded the First Opium War, namely: Guangzhou 廣州／广州, Fuzhou 福州, Ningbo 寧波／宁波, Xiamen or Amoy 廈門／厦门 and Shanghai 上海
Characters:
- 五 - five; surname
- 口 - mouth; entrance, gate, opening
- 通 - to pass through, to open, to connect; to communicate; common
- 商 - commerce, business, trade
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