Qinhuangdao

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'in-huang-tao (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin Qínhuángdǎo romanization of the Mandarin 秦皇島／秦皇岛 (Qínhuángdǎo).

Proper noun

Qinhuangdao

1. A prefecture-level city in Hebei, China.
   • [1975 July 9 [1975 July 8], “China Completes Pipeline”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 07, 2024, page 64‎^[2]:

     A 221‐mile oil pipeline has been completed from the North China port of Chinhuangtao to Peking, the official Hsinhua news agency reported today.]

   • [1978 December, Ruth Weiss, “Peitaiho—Vistas from a Seaside Resort”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[3], volume XVII, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37, column 1:

     In Funing county of Hopei province, in the opposite direction to Chinhuangtao, if you go from Peitaiho, we saw then a reservoir built in 1959 to tame the Yangho River which had been a menace in the past.]

   • 2014 November 20, Austin Ramzy, “Man Stabs 7 Hospital Workers to Death in China, Police Say”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 November 2014, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     The suspect, a 27-year-old hospital employee who had no known motive, was arrested after the attacks, the Qinhuangdao City Public Security Bureau said in a statement online. The stabbings took place Thursday morning in Beidaihe, a resort area in the Hebei Province city of Qinhuangdao, about 180 miles east of Beijing.

Synonyms

• Chinwangtao
• QHD

 

Derived terms

• QHD

 

Translations

prefecture-level city in Hebei, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 秦皇島／秦皇岛 (ceon⁴ wong⁴ dou²)

  Mandarin: 秦皇島／秦皇岛 (zh) (Qínhuángdǎo)

Further reading

• “Qinhuangdao”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Qinhuangdao, Ch'in-huang-tao, Chin-huang-tao, Ch'inhuangtao, Chinhuangtao, Chinwangtao at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qinhuangdao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 2