Xinghai

See also: xīnghǎi

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興海 / 兴海 (Xìnghǎi).

Proper noun

Xinghai

1. A county of Hainan, Qinghai, China.
   • 1991 September 9, Nicholas D. Kristof, “In Corner of Tibet, Chinese Now Predominate”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 25, 2015, Section A, page 1‎^[2]:

     In Xinghai County, two young men were forced to flee to India last year when the police sought to arrest them for distributing 100 pro-independence leaflets, villagers said.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 興海 / 兴海 (hing¹ hoi²)

  Mandarin: 興海 / 兴海 (zh) (Xìnghǎi)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can