Chenghai

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'eng-hai (Wade–Giles)
• Tenghai (Postal Romanization)

Etymology

From Mandarin 澄海 (Chénghǎi).

Pronunciation

• enPR: chǔngʹhīʹ

Proper noun

Chenghai

1. A district of Shantou, Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China.
   • 1880, Reports on the Trade of the Treaty Ports 1879‎^[2], Imperial Maritime Customs, →OCLC, page 208:

     The Chenghai district, in which Swatow is situated, is in fact but a vast alluvial plain formed by the sand and mud brought by the waters of the Han river, the numerous branches of which find their outlet to the sea in that district.

   • 2013, Rowan Callick, “Doing Business”, in The Party Forever: Inside China's Modern Communist Elite‎^[3], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 148:

     China supplies about 70 percent of the world’s toys. Guangdong’s toy exports account for about 75 percent of all such exports and earn the province US$15 billion every year. Almost half of these toys are produced in Chenghai, a scruffy town of 700,000 permanent residents, plus many migrant workers, in the Shantou district.

   • 2015, J. K. Chua, “Cultivating Gratitude: The Seven Signs from Heaven”, in Pebbles in the Pond: Transforming the World One Person at a Time, Wave Four‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 52:

     During my grandparents’ generation and the generation before, most of the clansmen were illiterate, but they were deeply religious and followed traditional ways. They spoke the Chaozhou (Teochew) dialect and were originally from the Chenghai district of the city of Shantou, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China.

   • 2016 October 2, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Fate Catches Up to a Cultural Revolution Museum in China”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 October 2016, Asia Pacific‎^[6]:

     Amid yellow pagodas pointing heavenward, Mr. Peng and a small group of volunteers built memorial arches across the park’s steep roads and paths lined with riotous subtropical vegetation. The site, in the Chenghai district of Shantou, was an appropriate place for memory — Buddhist pagodas are associated with the dead, and many local victims of the Cultural Revolution lie here, many buried in mass graves.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chenghai.

Translations

a district and former county of China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 澄海 (cing⁴ hoi²)

  Mandarin: 澄海 (zh) (Chénghǎi)

• Japanese: 澄海 (ちょうかい, Chōkai)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chenghai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 750, column 3