Baishui

See also: báishuǐ

English

Alternative forms

• Paishui

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 白水 (Báishuǐ).

Proper noun

Baishui

1. A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1998 November 6, “China Food Poisoning Strikes 260”, in AP News‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-04-07‎^[2]:

     Mourners fell ill Sunday in Baishui, a rural county northwest of the provincial capital, Xi’an. Four remained in serious condition, the report said.

   • 2015, Tang Lu, “Experience: Understanding and Reporting India”, in Robin Jeffrey, Ronojoy Sen, editors, Media at Work in China and India: Discovering and Dissecting‎^[3], SAGE Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101:

     It was my good fortune around this time also to be selected as vice-governor for a year in Baishui county, recognized as a Chinese National Poverty County, located in Shaanxi province of China.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白水 (zh) (Báishuǐ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Baishui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 280, column 2