Qinghai

See also: Qīnghǎi

English

Alternative forms

• Tsinghai, Tsing-hai
• Chinghai, Ch'ing-hai (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 青海 / 靑海 (Qīnghǎi, literally “Blue Sea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪŋˈhaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Proper noun

Qinghai

2. A province in northwestern China. Capital: Xining.
   • 1970, R. F. Price, “Part-time schools and classes”, in Brian Holmes, editor, Education in Communist China (World education series)‎^[2], New York, Washington: Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 215:

     In Qinghai (Chinghai) Province, 300 schools in six xian surrounding the provincial capital, Xi’ning^{[sic – meaning Xining]} (Sining), had 10,000 students in 1964. Part-work schools in the province enabled 8 per cent of the age-group to attend school, including some go per cent of those children from poor and lower middle peasant families (SCMP 3350, 1964). Qinghai (Chinghai) also reported 100 ‘tent-schools’, moving with the herdsmen over the grazing grounds.

   • 1975, “The National Minority Languages of China”, in Winfred P. Lehmann, editor, Language and Linguistics in the People's Republic of China‎^[3], University of Texas Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:

     Tibetan is found predominantly in Tibet; Tibetan-speaking communities are also found in Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan, and Gansu. In Tibet, all official documents are issued in both Tibetan and Chinese, and also in certain regions of Sichuan and Qinghai. Moreover, the radio stations in Tibet broadcast in Tibetan and Putonghua. Similarly, the Chengdu radio station in Sichuan and the Xining radio station in Qinghai also have regular Tibetan broadcasts.

   • 2001, Kim Dramer, “China's Sorrow”, in The Yellow River‎^[4] (Juvenile Literature), Franklin Watts, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 7–8:

     The source of the Yellow River is in the Qinghai Province on the Tibetan Plateau. This area is often called the "Roof of the World" because of its high altitude, the height of a place above sea level.

   • 2018 January 20, Chris Buckley, Adam Wu, “Where China Built Its Bomb, Dark Memories Haunt the Ruins”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 January 2018, Asia Pacific‎^[6]:

     The decaying clusters of workshops, bunkers and dormitories are remnants of Plant 221, also known as China’s Los Alamos. Here, on a mountain-high grassland called Jinyintan in Qinghai Province, thousands of Tibetan and Mongolian herders were expelled to create a secret town where a nuclear arsenal was built to defend Mao Zedong’s revolution.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Qinghai.
4. A large lake in Qinghai province, the largest in China.

Synonyms

• Amdo (as a Tibetan region)
• Koko Nor, Koko-nur, Kokonor, (the lake, region,and province, historical)

Translations

a Chinese province

• Arabic: تْشِينْغْهَاي m (tšinḡhay), تْشِينْغْخَاي m (tšinḡḵay)
• Armenian: Ցինհայ (Cʻinhay)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 青海 (cing¹ hoi²)

  Mandarin: 青海 (zh) (Qīnghǎi), 靑海 (Qīnghǎi)

• Czech: Čching-chaj
• Georgian: ცინხაი (cinxai)
• Greek: Τσινγκχάι (Tsingkchái)
• Hungarian: Csinghaj (hu)
• Japanese: 青海 (ja) (せいかい, Seikai)
• Korean: 칭하이 (Chinghai), 청해 (ko) (Cheonghae)
• Latvian: Cjinhai
• Lithuanian: Činghajus
• Macedonian: Чи́нгхај (Čínghaj)
• Manchu: ᡴᡠᡴᡝ
  ᠨᠣᠣᡵ (kuke noor), ᡥᡠᡥᡠ
  ᠨᠣᠣᡵ (huhu noor)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Хөхнуур (Xöxnuur)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠬᠡᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (kökenaɣur), ᠬᠥᠬᠡ
  ᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (köke naɣur)

• Russian: Цинха́й m (Cinxáj)
• Thai: ชิงไห่
• Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན (mtsho sngon zhing chen), ཁུ་ཁེ་རྲོའུར (khu khe rro'ur)
• Vietnamese: Thanh Hải (vi)
• Zhuang: Cinghhaij

Further reading

• Qinghai, Ch'ing-hai, Ching-hai, Ch'inghai, Chinghai, Tsinghai, Tsing-hai at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qingjian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2546, column 3