Baoting
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Pao-t'ing
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 保亭 (Bǎotíng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baʊ.tɪŋ/
Proper noun
Baoting
- A Li and Miao autonomous county in Hainan, China.
- [1978 November 15, People's Republic of China, Agriculture, number 12, U. S. Joint Publications Research Service, OCLC 4511955, page 60:
- HAINAN COUNTY FLOODS—The leadership organs at all levels in Paoting County adopted emergency measures to reduce the losses caused by typhoons and rainstorms to the minimum and tried by every way possible to reap n bumper harvest.]
- 2000, Hattaway, Paul, “Li, Jiamao”, in Operation China: Introducing all the Pooples of China, Piquant, →ISBN, OCLC 241284506, OL 8478380M, page 293:
- Fifty-two thousand speakers of the Jiamao language were reported in a 1987 study.¹ They live in the southeastern part of Hainan Island, concentrated in the eastern and southern parts of Baoting County, as well as in parts of Lingshui and Qiongzhong counties.
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Translations
Li and Miao autonomous county
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Anagrams
- Tongbai, boating