Dianbai

See also: Diànbái

English

Alternative forms

• Tien-pai (Wade–Giles)
• Tinpak (Postal Romanization, from Cantonese)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 電白／电白 (Diànbái).

Proper noun

Dianbai

1. A district and former county of Maoming, Guangdong, China.
   • 2000 August 8, John Pomfret, “China Finds Rampant Cheating on College Test”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 August 2017‎^[2]:

     After July 7, Dianbai become synonymous with another trend in China: widespread cheating on entrance examinations. […]
     In Dianbai, shops openly sold or rented pagers that could receive exam answers and display them on their screens.

   • 2003, Richard Mintzer, Yes, You Can Adopt!: A Comprehensive Guide to Adoption‎^[3], Carroll & Graf Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 201:

     There was paperwork to sign and a weekend to contend with before a day of travel from Beijing to Dianbai, the town the orphanage was in. When the bus arrived in Dianbai the orphanage director got on the bus and said we should go to our hotel in Maoming and the girls would be brought to us.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電白／电白 (din⁶ baak⁶)

  Mandarin: 電白／电白 (Diànbái)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dianbai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1015, column 2