Qinhuangdao

Qinhuangdao

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade-Giles) Ch'in-huang-tao

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 秦皇島／秦皇岛 (Qínhuángdǎo).

Proper noun

Qinhuangdao

1. A prefecture-level city in Hebei, China.
   • [1978 December, Weiss, Ruth, “Peitaiho—Vistas from a Seaside Resort”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume XVII, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 751117974, page 37, column 1:

     In Funing county of Hopei province, in the opposite direction to Chinhuangtao, if you go from Peitaiho, we saw then a reser- voir built in 1959 to tame the Yangho River which had been a menace in the past.]

Synonyms

• Chinwangtao

Translations

prefecture-level city in Hebei, China

Chinese: Cantonese: 秦皇島, 秦皇岛 (ceon4 wong4 dou2) Mandarin: 秦皇島／秦皇岛 (zh) (Qínhuángdǎo)

Further reading

• “Qinhuangdao”, in Collins English Dictionary.