Xingtai

See also: xíngtài and Xíngtái

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 邢臺 / 邢台 (Xíngtái).

Proper noun

Xingtai

1. A prefecture-level city in Hebei, China.
   • [1970, “Earthquakes”, in Annual summary of information on natural disasters 1966‎^[1], Belgium: Unesco, →OCLC, page 26‎^[2]:

     Little detailed information is available on the series of violent shocks which occurred in Hopeh province, north-eastern China, in March 1966. The earthquake of 7 March (No. 184), whose epicentre was located in the region of Hsing-t’ai, about 400 km south-west of Pekin, probably caused extensive damage since the magnitude was 7 and the focus shallow. […]
     The New China agency reported that numerous buildings and houses collapsed but that the number of casualties was less than on 8 March, when people had been caught in their sleep. The worst damage was done at Hsing-t’ai, Heng-shui and Shih-chia-chuang [1]; numerous aftershocks (Nos. 186-90) were felt in the same region up to 29 March.]

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 邢臺 / 邢台 (jing⁴ toi⁴)

  Mandarin: 邢臺 / 邢台 (zh) (Xíngtái)