Hailar

English

Map including HU-LUN (HAILAR) 呼倫 (海拉爾) (AMS, 1951)

Etymology

From Mongolian Хайлаар (Xajlaar)/ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠯᠠᠷ (qayilar).

Pronunciation

• enPR: hīʹlärʹ

Proper noun

Hailar

1. A district and former county-level city in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China.
   • 1874 June 22, Henry Bartle Frere, Address to the Royal Geographical Society‎^[1], page clxxvi:

     After visiting Hailar, the trade centre of North-Eastern Mongolia and Trans-Hingan Manchuria, Dr. Fritsche entered Russian territory at Tsurukhaitu.

   • 1922, Lien Teh Wu, “Plague in the Orient with Special Reference to the Manchurian Outbreaks”, in Addresses & Papers, Dedication Ceremonies and Medical Conference, Peking Union Medical College, September 15-22, 1921‎^[2], Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, →OCLC, page 193:

     The first outbreak continued without any interruption at Manchouli and passed on to the other cities until its suppression in the following April. The second outbreak did not show its full virulence until November, at Hailar, where I personally examined the early bubonic cases and saw the gradual evolution through the septicemic into the pulmonary form.

   • 1957, James William Morley, The Japanese Thrust into Siberia, 1918‎^[3], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 85:

     From the time the Allies invited them into Harbin (the end of December, 1917), Chinese troops had been moving rapidly along the Chinese Eastern Railway to take over garrison duties throughout the zone.⁹ According to Semenov, it was only through a combination of force and trickery that he was able to keep Hailar and Manchouli out of their hands.¹⁰

   • 1985 December 25, “SOVIET AIRLINER REPORTEDLY HIJACKED TO CHINA”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, section 1, page 4‎^[5]:

     The aircraft was reported to have landed at Hailar, a city of about 100,000 people in Inner Mongolia about 70 miles from the Soviet border.

   • 2021 November 28, Roxanne Liu, Gabriel Crossley, “Parts of northern China tighten curbs on new COVID-19 flare-ups”, in Kim Coghill, Gerry Doyle, editors, Reuters‎^[6], archived from the original on 29 November 2021, China:

     Hailar district, an administrative division about three hours away from Manzhouli, has blocked some roads linking it to the outside and required people arriving from Manzhouli to be quarantined at centralised facilities for two weeks.

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

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Haila'er, Hailaerh, Hai-la-erh

Translations

district and former county-level city in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海拉爾 / 海拉尔 (zh) (Hǎilā'ěr)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hailar”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1214, column 2