Hetian
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 和田 (Hétián).
Proper noun edit
Hetian
- Synonym of Hotan: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- 2005 September 7, “Uighur Separatists Arrested in Xinjiang's Hetian Prefecture”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China[1], archived from the original on 19 September 2014[2]:
- Police arrested seven members of an East Turkestan separatist organization in Hetian prefecture in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, according an to August 30 article in the Hong Kong daily Wen Wei Po.
Translations edit
prefecture in Xinjiang, China