Dianbai
See also: Diànbái
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Tien-pai
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 電白／电白 (Diànbái).
Proper noun
Dianbai
- A district and former county of Maoming, Guangdong, China.
- 2003, Mintzer, Richard, Yes, You Can Adopt!: A Comprehensive Guide to Adoption, Carroll & Graf Publishers, →ISBN, OCLC 51211298, page 201:
- There was paperwork to sign and a weekend to contend with before a day of travel from Beijing to Dianbai, the town the orphanage was in. When the bus arrived in Dianbai the orphanage director got on the bus and said we should go to our hotel in Maoming and the girls would be brought to us.
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Synonyms
- (postal romanization, from Cantonese) Tinpak
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