Huangnan

See also: Huángnán

English

Etymology

From the Mandarin 黃南 / 黄南 (Huángnán).

Proper noun

Huangnan

1. A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China.
   • 2012 June 15, Andrew Jacobs, “Tibetan Herder Dies After Setting Himself on Fire in Government Protest”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on June 18, 2012, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     The herder, Tamdin Thar, who was thought to be in his early 60s, self-immolated in front of a police compound in Markethang, a county seat in the Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, according to the group Free Tibet.

   • [2014 February 7, “Self-immolation of Tibetan father of two in Tsekhog”, in International Campaign for Tibet‎^[3], archived from the original on March 28, 2014‎^[4]:

     A Tibetan man in his late twenties called Phagmo Samdup set himself on fire on February 5 in Dokarmo town in Tsekhog (Chinese: Zeku) in Malho (Chinese: Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, the Tibetan area of Amdo, according to Tibetan sources. It is the first self-immolation of 2014, five years on from the first self-immolation in Tibet of Kirti monk Tapey in February, 2009.]

Translations

Tibetan autonomous prefecture

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 黃南 / 黄南

  Mandarin: 黃南 / 黄南 (zh) (Huángnán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can