Tihwa

English

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 迪化 (Díhuà).

Proper noun

Tihwa

1. Alternative form of Dihua.
   • 1929 May 31, “Air Mail Services Throughout China To Be Established: Five Projects Contemplated by Government to Connect Large Cities in Unified System.”, in The United States Daily‎^[1], page 12:

     (c) To complete the section from Lanchow to Tihwa of the Nanking-Sinkiang Line. This line will be divided into three sections with Suchow and Hami and the dividing stations, and the airplanes will stop at Sian and Turfan.

   • 1943, Wendell L. Willkie, One World‎^[2], Cassell and Company Ltd., page 81:

     I dined with Governor Sheng in Tihwa, and the Soviet Consul-General dined with us. We toasted each other and the three countries from which we came in Russian vodka and in Chinese rice wine, and there was no hint of anything but cordial friendship between Russia and China. But the next morning I had a private breakfast, at his suggestion, with the Chinese Governor, who once was sympathetic with the Communists and of late has shifted his allegiance to the Generalissimo.

   • 1949, Ian Morrison, “Some Notes on the Kazaks of Sinkiang”, in Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society‎^[3], volume 36, number 1, page 67:

     In August of this year I set out with two American friends from Tihwa, the provincial capital (better known perhaps by its Mongol name of Urumchi), to visit the Pei-ta-shan area, north-east of Tihwa, where there have been a number of clashes during the past two years between the Chinese and the Outer Mongolians, and also to try and locate the Kazak chieftan, Osman, who is the leading Kazak figure on the Chinese side.

   • 1964, Peter Lisagor, Marguerite Higgins, Overtime in Heaven: Adventures in the Foreign Service‎^[4], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 174:

     Paxton had refused to panic. He could not have known that only two days earlier, the American mission in Nanking had cabled Washington urging that the Tihwa consulate be closed immediately in view of the rapid Communist advance into the northwest.

   • 1995, Peter Rand, China Hands: The Adventures and Ordeals of the American Journalists Who Joined Forces with the Great Chinese Revolution‎^[5], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 288:

     She was anticipating the upcoming truck ride to Tihwa, the capital of Sinkiang, with a certain detachment.

   • 2000, John C. Culver, John Hyde, American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace‎^[6], W. W. Norton & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 333:

     Wallace crossed into China on June 18 at Tihwa, in the western province of Sinkiang.

Translations

Dihua — see Dihua

Further reading

• “Tihwa”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Tihwa, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Tihwa” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.