Beihai
See also: bèihài and Běihǎi
English
Part of the Nine Dragon Wall in Beihai Park
Alternative forms
- Pakhoi, Pak-hoi, Pak Hoi
- Pei-hai (obs.)
Etymology
The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 北海 (Běihǎi, “North Sea”).
Proper noun
Beihai
- A prefecture-level city in Guangxi, in southern China.
- 2014 September 28, “4 boys in China drown while searching for eggs”, in AP News, archived from the original on 22 June 2022:
- The city of Beihai in the southern province of Guangxi said in a statement online that the four boys — three of them aged 12 and one of them 11 — were searching in a city bay Saturday afternoon when they drowned.
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- A lake in Beijing, China.
- [1978, Hsia, Chih-yen, Liang-lao Dee, transl., The Coldest Winter in Peking, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., →ISBN, LCCN 77-26522, OCLC 1067816302, page 311:
- The pure waters of the Northern Lake (Pei-hai) originated in the Jade Spring Mountain and passed through the long Grand Canal and flowed through Shih-ch'a Lake. Then it fed into the Central Lake (Chung-hai) and the Southern Lake (Nan-hai), all the way to the Tung-tzu River.]
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Related terms
- Zhongnanhai
Translations
city in Guangxi
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