Xiahe
English
Etymology 1
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 夏河 (Xiàhé).
Proper noun
Xiahe
- A county of Gannan prefecture, Gansu, China.
- [1951 January, Sa, Kung-liao, “National Minorities Welcome the Goodwill Mission”, in China Pictorial, number 1, ISSN 0009-4420, OCLC 671845184, page :
- The lamas of Hsiaho County, Kansu Province, welcome the goodwill mission in their famous temple, Labrang Gomba, and hear the government's policy towards national minorities.]
- 2007, Makley, Charlene E., “Introduction”, in The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China, University of California Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2007020212, OCLC 255829633, page 1:
- Foreign tourists in the southwestern Gansu province town of Labrang, the seat of Xiahe county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, moved through its streets like phantoms.
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Etymology 2
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 下和.
Proper noun
Xiahe
- A village in Lintong district, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
- 1999 [June 26, 1998], “Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion With Xiahe Area Residents”, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton 1998, volume I, OCLC 31268646, page 1063:
- Participant. My name is Yang Dongyi, and I am from Xiahe village. I grew up in this village. First I was a farmer, and now I rent a little company.
- 1999, Malloy, Ruth Lor, China Guide: Be a Traveler, Not a Tourist!, 10th edition, →ISBN, OCLC 42900195, page 507:
- President Clinton visited the Terracotta Warriors, the Tang frescoes and the basement of the Shaanxi History Museum. He stayed at the Xi’an Hyatt Hotel. Near the Warriors, he visited Xiahe village with an annual per capita income of Y2601. Its life had been changed by tourism.
- 2003 December 26, Su Wei, “We Found the Terracotta Warriors!”, in Beijing Today, OCLC 958634538, page 8:
- The men were just digging a well in Xiyangzu, Xiahe Village, Lintong District, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. “It was on March 29, 1974 when we were digging in the south west of our village, looking for water,” Yang Xinman, head of the team of workers, told Beijing Today. “After having dug four meters, we noticed some fragments of arms, legs and arrow heads made from pottery.”
- 2005, Clinton, Bill, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, OCLC 60594427, page 434:
- We began the trip at the ancient capital of Xi'an, where the Chinese put on an elaborate and beautiful welcoming ceremony. The next day we had the opportunity to walk among the rows of the famous terra-cotta warriors, and to have a roundtable discussion with Chinese citizens in the small village of Xiahe.
- 2007, 高洁, editor, 口语六大原则, →ISBN, OCLC 305819851, page 105:
- Five kilometers east of the Lintong County seat, in the vicinity of Xiahe Village, is the tomb of Qin Shi Huang.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xiahe.
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Translations
village
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