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Lingao

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See also: Língāo

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Etymology

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin[1] 臨高临高 (Língāo).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Lingao

  1. A county of Hainan, China.
    • [1979, Frederick C. Teiwes, Politics & Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-1965[2], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 370:
      Subsequently, "all Hainan Island was swept by a wave of discrimination, attack, insult and threat against outside cadres [with the result that] everybody was plunged into a state of panic." This came to a climax in December 1956 with a "miniature Hungarian incident" in Linkao county.]
    • 2020 November 27, Li Nan, “Beijing Review: How an addict conquered both his addiction and poverty”, in AP News, PR Newswire[3], archived from the original on 10 September 2023[4]:
      Wang Haibian was among the first few people in Maniao, a fishing community in Lingao County of Hainan Province, south China, to get hooked on drugs in the mid-1990s.

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Limko”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1056, column 1

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