Qionghai

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'iung-hai (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 瓊海 / 琼海 (Qiónghǎi).

Proper noun

Qionghai

1. A sub-prefectural city in Hainan, China.
   • 2015 August 4, Brett Cole, “An Exchange in Australia Woos Listings From China”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 August 2015, DealBook‎^[2]:

     Born in Qionghai on the island of Hainan to a local government official and a stay-at-home mother, Mr. Wang studied environmental engineering at Donghua University in Shanghai, graduating in 1984.

   • 2021 March 19, Twinnie Siu, “China to crack down on use of leanness enhancers in cattle and sheep”, in Kirsten Donovan, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 21 March 2021, Currencies‎^[4]:

     Villagers on an electric bike herd their cattle along a road in the town of Boao in Qionghai, Hainan province, China August 11, 2018.

Translations

sub-prefectural city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓊海 / 琼海 (zh) (Qiónghǎi)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Qionghai, Ch'iunghai, Chiunghai at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qionghai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 3