Qionghai
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 瓊海/琼海 (Qiónghǎi).
Proper noun
editQionghai
- A sub-prefectural city in Hainan, China.
- 2015 August 4, Brett Cole, “An Exchange in Australia Woos Listings From China”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 August 2015, DealBook[2]:
- Born in Qionghai on the island of Hainan to a local government official and a stay-at-home mother, Mr. Wang studied environmental engineering at Donghua University in Shanghai, graduating in 1984.
- 2021 March 19, Twinnie Siu, “China to crack down on use of leanness enhancers in cattle and sheep”, in Kirsten Donovan, editor, Reuters[3], archived from the original on 21 March 2021, Currencies[4]:
- Villagers on an electric bike herd their cattle along a road in the town of Boao in Qionghai, Hainan province, China August 11, 2018.
Translations
editsub-prefectural city
Further reading
edit- Qionghai, Ch'iunghai, Chiunghai at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qionghai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 3
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