Xikou

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| name = Xikou

| native_name = 溪口镇

| other_name = Chikow/Hsikow/Kikow

| settlement_type = Town

| image_skyline = Second storey of Chiang Kai Shek's house Miaogaotai in Xikou, Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China - 20061230.jpg

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| image_caption = The second story of Chiang Kai-shek's home

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Zhejiang

| coordinates = {{coord|29|41|23|N|121|16|34|E|display=inline,title}}

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = China

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Zhejiang

| subdivision_type2 = Sub-provincial city

| subdivision_name2 = Ningbo

| subdivision_type3 = District

| subdivision_name3 = Fenghua

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| area_footnotes = {{cite web|url=http://www.fh.gov.cn/art/2013/5/8/art_133720_7403705.html|title=The Introduction of Xikou Town|website={{lang|zh-hans|宁波市奉化区人民政府}} English|access-date=30 September 2019|date=8 May 2013|quote=It covers 381 square kilometers,}}

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| population_total = 84000

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| timezone1 = China Standard

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| postal_code = 315500

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{{Chinese

| title = Xikou
(the town when Fenghua was a county)

| psp = Chikow/Hsikow/Kikow

| c = 溪口

| p = Xīkǒu

| w = Hsi¹-k'ou³

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XikouXikou is sometimes transliterated as Chikow/Qikou/Kikow. Until the 20th century, 溪 was pronounced [t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵], as evidenced by its fanqie reading (苦奚切). This archaic pronunciation of 溪 gives rise to the spelling 'Chikow', or 'Qikou' in the Hanyu Pinyin system. The old Postal Romanization 'Kikow' reflects the 19th century pronunciation of 溪 in conservative Mandarin dialects (e.g. Nanking dialect) in which velars had not undergone palatalization (from [kʰ] to [t͡ɕʰ] in this case). ({{zh|s=溪口镇|t=溪口鎮|p=Xīkǒu Zhèn|w=Hsi¹-k'ou³ Chen⁴}}), is a town of 84,000 in northeastern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It is located {{convert|39|km|sp=us}} west of Ningbo and covers {{convert|381|km2|sp=us}}. It is under the administration of Fenghua District, and is the {{ill|Former residence of Chiang Kai-shek|zh|蒋氏故居|lt=birthplace and ancestral home}} of the former President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek.{{cite book

| title = Guang Hua

| publisher = Kwang Haw Pub. (USA)

| issue = v. 23, nos. 1-6

| year = 1998

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=93FDAAAAYAAJ

| access-date = 10 May 2019

| page = 35

}}{{cite book

| title = China Tourism

| publisher = HK China Tourism Press

| issue = nos. 246-251

| year = 2001

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6a7YJ8IRmiIC

| access-date = 10 May 2019

| page = 34

| quote = Xikou and Mount Xuedou Scenic Area Xikou Town, 20 km south of the Yinxian county seat, is the hometown of Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo — noted personages in modern Chinese history.

}} Mao Fumei, divorced wife of ROC President Chiang Kai-shek and mother of ROC President Chiang Ching-kuo, was killed during the Japanese bombing of Xikou on December 12, 1939.