Lingao

See also: Língāo

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臨高／临高 (Língāo).

Pronunciation

• enPR: lǐnʹgouʹ

Proper noun

Lingao

1. A county of Hainan, China.
   • [1979, Frederick C. Teiwes, Politics & Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-1965‎^[2], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 370:

     Subsequently, "all Hainan Island was swept by a wave of discrimination, attack, insult and threat against outside cadres [with the result that] everybody was plunged into a state of panic." This came to a climax in December 1956 with a "miniature Hungarian incident" in Linkao county.]

   • 2020 November 27, Li Nan, “Beijing Review: How an addict conquered both his addiction and poverty”, in AP News, PR Newswire‎^[3], archived from the original on 10 September 2023‎^[4]:

     Wang Haibian was among the first few people in Maniao, a fishing community in Lingao County of Hainan Province, south China, to get hooked on drugs in the mid-1990s.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臨高／临高 (zh) (Língāo)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lingao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1745, column 2