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.]

   • 1984 December 26 [1984 September 20], Chen Lei, “Further Emancipate the Mind and Penetratingly Carry Out Reform and Open-Door Policy”, in China Report: Economic Affairs‎^[4], number 84-107, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 18:

     In addition, on the basis of making full use of Dalian and Qinhuangdao ports for exports, we should fully use Qingjin and Luojin ports in the DPRK to expand our province's export commodity capacity.

   • 2014 November 20, Austin Ramzy, “Man Stabs 7 Hospital Workers to Death in China, Police Say”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 November 2014, Asia Pacific‎^[6]:

     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^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 2