Daxing'anling

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大興安嶺／大兴安岭 (Dàxīng'ānlǐng).

Proper noun

Daxing'anling

1. Synonym of Dahingganling: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1991, Contemporary Chinese Women Writers (Panda Books)‎^[1], volume II, Beijing: Chinese Literature Press, published 1997, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 315:

     Twenty-three-year-old Chi Zijian graduated from Daxing’anling Normal School, Heilongjiang in 1984, and now teaches there.

   • 2004 December 31, Wang Fang, Duan Hongqing, “Personal Power Treads on Justice”, in Beijing Today‎^[2], number 187, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 3:

     Yang Yongxia, 24, the chief accountant of Tahe Tax Bureau, and her one-year-old son Han Yang were found dead in the cellar of her house in Daxing’anling Prefecture, Tahe County. The evidence seemed to point to her husband, Han Jianxun.

   • 2014, Rebecca Rowell, “Ten Destructive Wildfires”, in Wildfires‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:

     May 6, 1987
     China
     The Daxing'anling Wildfire in China was not the first wildfire in the Daxing'anling Mountains, but it was the worst. It burned for almost a month, destroying more than 2 million acres (971,245 ha), killing more than 200 people, and leaving more than 50,000 homeless.

   • 2017 May 3, Pinghui Zhang, “Thousands tackling huge forest fire in northern China”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2017, Society‎^[5]:

     More than 8,300 people are helping to fight a huge forest fire in northern China, according to media reports.
     The blaze in Daxing’anling prefecture in Inner Mongolia has spread to over 5,000 hectares with two fronts of the blaze each stretching about 7km, the reports said. […]
     Daxing’anling is a mountainous forested area and the State Forestry Administration said a sudden change in the direction and force of the wind had spread the fire quickly to the southwest, putting firefighters in “extreme danger” and severely hampering efforts to put out the blaze.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Daxing'anling.