Huangshi

See also: huángshǐ, huángshì, and Huángshí

English

Alternative forms

• Hwangshih
• Huang-shih (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin for 黃石／黄石 (Huángshí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhwɑŋ ʃi/, /-ʃə/

Proper noun

Huangshi

1. A prefecture-level city in Hubei, China.
   • [1969, John Gardner, “Urban Bureaucratic Elite in Communist China”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action‎^[1], University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 221:

     Supported by the rich supply of iron ore and coal from the neighboring towns of Tayeh and Huangshih, a major industrial complex had grown up by the 1930's.]

   • 2008 August 7, Melissa Hoppert, “Athlete Bio: Cheng Fei”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 October 2023, Sports‎^[3]:

     Raised in Huangshi, a small town in Hubei Province, Cheng Fei (pronounced chung fay) entered China's state-run sports system as a 7-year-old.

   • 2011, OECD, Developments in Steelmaking Capacity of Non-OECD Economies 2010‎^[4], OECD Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 180:

     Hubei Xinyegang Steel (Xinyegang), a subsidiary of one of China's largest specialty steel makers, CITIC Pacific, officially launched two new specialty seamless pipe plants on 11 December 2009. This boosts Xinyegang's seamless pipe capacity to 1.1m tonnes/year. Located in Huangshi city in central China's Hubei province, the two new plants are one 460mm medium- and thick-walled Assel mill with a design capacity of 300,000 t/y and one 273mm Assel mill with a design capacity of 230,000 t/y.

Translations

prefecture-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃石／黄石 (zh) (Huángshí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• “Huangshi, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Huangshi”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huangshi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1323, column 1