Heihe

Heihe

See also: heihe and hēihé

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Hei-ho

Etymology

From Mandarin 黑河 (Hēihé, literally “black river”) referring to the Amur.

Proper noun

Heihe

1. A prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China, on the Russian border, across the Amur river from the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk.

Translations

a prefecture-level city in northeastern China

Arabic: خِيخِه‎ m (ḵīḵih) Chinese: Mandarin: 黑河 (zh) (Hēihé) Japanese: 黒河 (こくか, Kokuka) Korean: 헤이허 (Heiheo) Russian: Хэйхэ́ m (Xɛjxɛ́) Vietnamese: Hắc Hà

See also

• Black River

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Heihe”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1260, column 2