Peitaiho
English
editEtymology
editFrom Mandarin 北戴河 (Běidàihé), Wade–Giles romanization: Pei³-tai⁴-ho².
Proper noun
editPeitaiho
- Alternative form of Beidaihe
- 1978 December, Ruth Weiss, “Peitaiho—Vistas from a Seaside Resort”, in Eastern Horizon[1], volume XVII, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37, column 1:
- In Funing county of Hopei province, in the opposite direction to Chinhuangtao, if you go from Peitaiho, we saw then a reservoir built in 1959 to tame the Yangho River which had been a menace in the past.
- 1982, Jean Fritz, Homesick[2], New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 58:
- My father put down his razor and straightened his face. "I've been meaning to tell you," he said. "We can't go to Peitaiho this summer, Jean. We'll be going to Kuling."
I couldn't believe it. There he was with soap over one half of his face, saying Kuling, not Peitaiho, just as if he were saying cornflakes, not Grape-Nuts.
- 2003, Allen Artz Wiant, “China Diary”, in A New Song for China: A Biography of Bliss Mitchell Wiant[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27:
- Peitaiho Beach is a seashore community created originally by and for westerners (i.e., non-Chinese). It became a very popular resort to escape the summer heat and humidity of inland cities. This community was connected by a spur line to the main line of the railway, the junction of which was at the town of Peitaiho, through which flowed a small river of the same name. Peitaiho Beach is on the Gulf of Chihli, approximately 15 miles from the China-Manchuria border.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Peitaiho.