Lingshui

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 陵水 (Língshuǐ).

Proper noun

Lingshui

1. A Li autonomous county in Hainan, China.
   • 1989 December 1 [1989 November 21], “Execution, Two Life Sentences Given in Hainan”, in Daily Report: China, number 89-230, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Haikou Hainan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, Regional Affairs, page 37, column 1:

     Criminal (Yang Shizhong), who was guilty of seizing a pistol and killing security policeman (Li Yuhe), was executed yesterday at (Wenluo) town in Lingshui Li Autonomous County.

   • 2001 April 2, John Pomfret, “U.S., Chinese Warplanes Collide Over S. China Sea”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 January 2016‎^[2]:

     Zhu criticized the U.S. crew for landing at a military airfield at Lingshui on Hainan "without permission from the Chinese side."

Translations

Li autonomous county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陵水 (zh) (Língshuǐ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lingshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1746, column 1