Huangmei

See also: Huang-mei

English

Alternative forms

• Hwangmei (Postal Romanization)
• Huang-mei (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 黃梅／黄梅 (Huángméi).

Proper noun

Huangmei

1. A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
   • [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[1], London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14:

     Hoangcheu commands over nine Cities, as Hoangcheu, Lotien, Maching, Hoangpi, Hoanggan, Kixui, Ki, Hoangmui, Hoangci.]

   • 1918, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China‎^[2], University of Birmingham, →OCLC, page 305:

     As observed in the Huangmei district in south-eastern Hupeh, the Rhaetic sandstones and shales with their characteristic purple colour directly overlie the Lower Permian limestone and Silurian shale.

   • 2011, Connie A. Shemo, “"To Stand for the Best of Everything": Shi Meiyu, 1914-1920”, in The Chinese Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1872-1937: On a Cross-Cultural Frontier of Gender, Race, and Nation‎^[3] (History; Medical), Lehigh University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158:

     […] sending the more serious cases to Danforth in Jiujiang.⁶⁹ In her 1917 annual report, Shi wrote that her nurses had set up dispensaries in the interior cities of Huangmei (Hwangmei) and Taihu (Tai Hu).

   • 2020 March 28, Sidney Leng, “Coronavirus: police, public clash as border reopens between Hubei and Jiangxi provinces”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 March 2020, Society‎^[5]:

     According to local government reports, the incident happened on the 1st Yangtze River Bridge that separates Huangmei county in Hubei – the province at the epicentre of the initial coronavirus outbreak – with the city of Jiujiang in Jiangxi.

2. A town in Huangmei, Huanggang, Hubei, China.

Translations

county in central China; town in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃梅／黄梅 (zh) (Huángméi)

• Japanese: 黄梅 (こうばい, Kōbai)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huangmei”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1322, column 1