Beidaihe

See also: Běidàihé

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北戴河 (Běidàihé).

Proper noun

Beidaihe

1. A district of Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China.
   • [2003, Allen Artz Wiant, “China Diary”, in A New Song for China: A Biography of Bliss Mitchell Wiant‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27:

     Peitaiho Beach is a seashore community created originally by and for westerners (i.e., non-Chinese). It became a very popular resort to escape the summer heat and humidity of inland cities. This community was connected by a spur line to the main line of the railway, the junction of which was at the town of Peitaiho, through which flowed a small river of the same name. Peitaiho Beach is on the Gulf of Chihli, approximately 15 miles from the China-Manchuria border.]

   • 2014 November 20, Austin Ramzy, “Man Stabs 7 Hospital Workers to Death in China, Police Say”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 November 2014, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     The stabbings took place Thursday morning in Beidaihe, a resort area in the Hebei Province city of Qinhuangdao, about 180 miles east of Beijing.

   • 2022 June 20, Zhang Yan, Brenda Goh, Kevin Huang, “China's Beidaihe district to bar Tesla cars from driving in from July - local police”, in Himani Sarkar, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 2022-06-20, Autos & Transportation‎^[5]:

     Tesla (TSLA.O) cars will from July 1 be barred from driving into the Chinese coastal district of Beidaihe for at least two months, a local traffic police official told Reuters on Monday.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 北戴河 (zh) (Běidàihé)

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• Korean: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Beidaihe”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 359, column 1