Hei-ho
See also: heiho and heihō
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 黑河 (Hēihé) Wade–Giles romanization: Hei¹-ho².
Proper noun
Hei-ho
- Alternative form of Heihe
- 1946, Tsai-yu Hsiao, Epidemiology of the Diseases of Naval Importance in Manchuria, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, OCLC 14731588, page 27:
- During an epidemic of the disease in Hei-ho, northern Manchuria, in 1941, ten per cent of the personnel in the Japanese army were affected.
- 1959, Sun Ching chih, editor, Economic geography of Northeast China (Liaoning, Kirin, Heilungkiang)., Peiping, OCLC 63843909, page 4:
- Because of the high latitude, and being located in the east of the mainland, this is the coldest region in the country. To the extreme north is the Hei-ho area that has an average yearly temperature under zero degree centigrade.
- 1976, Hu, C. T., “China After the Cultural Revolution”, in Christianity and the New China, volume I, Ecclesia Publications, →ISBN, LCCN 75-45791, OCLC 214967124, page 9:
- In respect to population distribution, two points deserve mention. One is the extremely uneven density pattern which can best be illustrated by drawing an imaginary line from Hei-ho in the northwest corner of Heilungkiang province to T'eng-ch'ung in Western Yunnan.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hei-ho.
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Translations
Heihe — see Heihe