Hebei

English

Alternative forms

• Ho-pei, Hopei (Wade-Giles)
• Hopeh (Postal Map spelling)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 河北 (Héběi, literally “north [of the] river”) referring to the Yellow River.

Proper noun

Hebei

1. A province in northern China. Capital: Shijiazhuang.

Derived terms

• hebeiensis

Translations

province of China

• Arabic: خِبِي‎ m (ḵibī), خِيبِي‎ m (ḵebī), هِيبِي‎ m (hebī)
• Armenian: Հեբեյ (Hebey)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 河北 (ho⁴ bak¹)

  Mandarin: 河北 (zh) (Héběi)

• Czech: Che-pej
• Finnish: Hebei
• Georgian: ხებეი (xebei)
• German: Hebei (de) n
• Greek: Χεμπέι (Chempéi)
• Hungarian: Hopej (hu)
• Japanese: 河北 (かほく, Kahoku)
• Korean: 허베이 (Heobei), 하북 (habuk)
• Latvian: Hebei
• Lithuanian: Hebėjus
• Lü: ᦷᦆᧉᦵᦗᦲᧉ (xo²poe²)
• Macedonian: Хебеј (Hebej)
• Marathi: हेपेइ (hepei)
• Russian: Хэбэ́й m (Xɛbɛ́j)
• Swedish: Hebei
• Tibetan: ཧའོ་པེ་ཞིང་ཆེན (ha'o pe zhing chen)
• Vietnamese: Hà Bắc (vi)
• Zhuang: Hozbwz