Huangmei

Huangmei

See also: Huang-mei

English

Alternative forms

• (postal romanization) Hwangmei
• (from Wade–Giles) Huang-mei

Etymology

From Mandarin 黃梅／黄梅 (Huángméi).

Proper noun

Huangmei

1. A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
   • 1918, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China‎, University of Birmingham, OCLC 729577746, page 305:

     As observed in the Huangmei district in south-eastern Hupeh, the Rhaetic sandstones and shales with their characteristic purple colour directly overlie the Lower Permian limestone and Silurian shale.

2. A town in Huangmei, Huanggang, Hubei, China.

Translations

county in central China; town in central China

Chinese: Mandarin: 黃梅／黄梅 (zh) (Huángméi) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huangmei”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1322, column 1