Xinghualing

See also: Xìnghuālǐng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 杏花嶺／杏花岭 (Xìnghuālǐng, literally “apricot blossom ridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃɪŋ.hwɑˈlɪŋ/

Proper noun

Xinghualing

1. A district of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
   • [1957, Henry Raymond Williamson, British Baptists in China, 1845-1952‎^[1], →OCLC, page 106:

     Meanwhile the T'ai-Yuan-Fu Boys' Boarding School had been transferred to new, more commodious and well-equipped buildings on the Hsing-Hua-Ling site.]

   • 2008 December 12, Manman Han, “Shanxi prosecuters say CCTV reporter took bribes”, in Beijing Today‎^[2], →OCLC, page 3:

     The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) confirmed Wednesday that a Beijing CCTV reporter detained by Shanxi Province prosecutors is under investigation for accepting bribes.
     It also said the Xinghualing District People’s Procuratorate in Taiyuan city, Shanxi, had jurisdiction over the case, and the SPP confirmed the reporter’s detention.

   • 2013, Michael Faure, Xinzhu Zhang, editors, The Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 126:

     In September of 2011, the Shanxi Combined Transport Group Company brought an action in the Taiyuan Xinghualing District People's Court (Shanxi Province), apparently alleging that Chapter V of the AML and Article 7 of the AUCL had been breached by the Taiyuan Railway Bureau (TRB), a local office of China's Ministry of Railway^{[sic – meaning Railways]}.

   • 2013 November 7, Gerry Mullany, “Police Arrest Suspect in Northern China Blasts”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-25, Sinosphere‎^[5]:

     “The suspect, Feng Zhijun, was arrested in Taiyuan,” said a report Friday by the state-run Xinhua news agency. It described Mr. Feng as a 41-year-old resident of Xinghualing District in Taiyuan who previously served a nine-year prison sentence for robbery.

   • 2018, Boxin Guo, Traditional Chinese Medicine Is An Intangible Science: My Medical Practice‎^[6], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86:

     The patient was a 27-year-old female named Guo, working as a teacher in North University of China. She lived at Wuyi Road, Xinghualing District, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xinghualing.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 杏花嶺／杏花岭 (zh) (Xìnghuālǐng)

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