Hei-ho

See also: heiho and heihō

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 黑河 (Hēihé) Wade–Giles romanization: Hei¹-ho².

Proper noun

Hei-ho

1. Alternative form of Heihe
   • 1946, Tsai-yu Hsiao, Epidemiology of the Diseases of Naval Importance in Manchuria‎^[1], Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, →OCLC, page 27:

     During an epidemic of the disease in Hei-ho, northern Manchuria, in 1941, ten per cent of the personnel in the Japanese army were affected.

   • 1959, Sun Ching chih, editor, Economic geography of Northeast China (Liaoning, Kirin, Heilungkiang).‎^[2], Peiping, →OCLC, page 4:

     Because of the high latitude, and being located in the east of the mainland, this is the coldest region in the country. To the extreme north is the Hei-ho area that has an average yearly temperature under zero degree centigrade.

   • 1976, C. T. Hu, “China After the Cultural Revolution”, in Christianity and the New China‎^[3], volume I, Ecclesia Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9:

     In respect to population distribution, two points deserve mention. One is the extremely uneven density pattern which can best be illustrated by drawing an imaginary line from Hei-ho in the northwest corner of Heilungkiang province to T'eng-ch'ung in Western Yunnan.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hei-ho.

Translations

Heihe — see Heihe