Zhuhai

See also: Zhūhǎi

English

Alternative forms

• Chu-hai, Chuhai (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 珠海 (Zhūhǎi).

Pronunciation

• enPR: jo͞oʹhīʹ

Proper noun

Zhuhai

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, in southeastern China
   • 2002, Margaret Thatcher, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World‎^[1], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166:

     In 1992, at the age of eighty-eight, Deng visited the Shenzhen and Zhuhai Special Economic Zones in order to defend his policies against Party critics.

Translations

a city of China

• Arabic: تْشُوهَاي m (tšuhāy), جُوخَاي m (juḵāy)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 珠海 (zyu¹ hoi²)

  Mandarin: 珠海 (zh) (Zhūhǎi)

• Hungarian: Csuhaj (hu)
• Japanese: 珠海 (じゅかい, Jukai)
• Korean: 주하이 (Juhai)
• Macedonian: Џу́хај m (Džúhaj)
• Russian: Чжуха́й m (Čžuxáj)
• Thai: จูไห่
• Vietnamese: Châu Hải (vi)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhuhai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[2], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3566, column 1: “Sometimes spelled Chu-hai.”