Haidian
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 海淀 (Hǎidiàn).
Proper noun
Haidian
- A district of Beijing, China.
- [1949 February 5 [December 16, 1948], Moffett, Samuel, “Behind the Curtain: Reds Occupy Yenching”, in Presbyterian Life, volume 2, number 3, ISSN 0032-7557, OCLC 8481868, page 14, column 3:
- We woke up this morning to find ourselves in Communist territory. Advance Red units pushed past Yenching last night and occupied Haitien, the village just south of us on the road to Peiping.]
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Translations
district
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Haidian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1213, column 3