Hengshui

See also: Héngshuǐ

English

Alternative forms

• Heng-shui (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 衡水 (Héngshuǐ).

Proper noun

Hengshui

1. A prefecture-level city in Hebei, China.
   • 1891 May 29, “Western Shantung”, in North-China Herald‎^[1], volume XLVI, number 1243, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 662, column 2:

     The dust-storms have been not merely unintermittent, but of a frightful character, even for North China. Within the past two or three weeks they have taken the form of violent winds, each of which at sea would almost make a young typhoon. In the Hengshui district we hear that the roof of a theatrical pavilion was blown for miles, and that two children were blown away, one killed, and the other never heard of.

   • [1970, Annual summary of information on natural disasters 1966‎^[2], Belgium: Unesco, →OCLC, page 26‎^[3]:

     The New China agency reported that numerous building and houses collapsed but that the number of casualties was less than on 8 March, when people had been caught in their sleep. The worst damage was done at Hsing-t’ai, Heng-shui and Shih-chia-chuang [1]; numerous aftershocks (Nos. 186-90) were felt in the same region up to 29 March.]

   • 1981 April 12, L. Chen, “Disastrous acts of dismounting”, in Free China Weekly‎^[4], volume XXII, number 14, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     The People's Daily on March 3 demanded that "hsia ma" items be attended to with proper rehabilitation efforts. "Through maximum utilization, dead things should be brought back alive," the editorial on page 1 urged.
     Two-thirds of page 2 was devoted to a description of how an iron mill at Hengshui, Hopei province, was torn into pieces and sold at giveaway prices.

   • 2019 April 25, “11 die as elevator cable snaps at work site in north China”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on May 07, 2024‎^[6]:

     The Voice of China radio said the accident, the latest in a series of deadly industrial incidents, occurred around 8 a.m. in the Hebei province city of Hengshui.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衡水 (zh) (Héngshuǐ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hengshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1267, column 1