Chenghai
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Ch'eng-hai
Etymology
From Mandarin 澄海 (Chénghǎi).
Proper noun
Chenghai
- A district of Shantou, Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China.
- 1880, Reports on the Trade of the Treaty Ports 1879, Imperial Maritime Customs, OCLC 5859328, page 208:
- The Chenghai district, in which Swatow is situated, is in fact but a vast alluvial plain formed by the sand and mud brought by the waters of the Han river, the numerous branches of which find their outlet to the sea in that district.
- 2013, Callick, Rowan, “Doing Business”, in The Party Forever: Inside China's Modern Communist Elite, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, LCCN 2013004222, OCLC 935009977, page 148:
- China supplies about 70 percent of the world’s toys. Guangdong’s toy exports account for about 75 percent of all such exports and earn the province US$15 billion every year. Almost half of these toys are produced in Chenghai, a scruffy town of 700,000 permanent residents, plus many migrant workers, in the Shantou district.
- 2015, Chua, J. K., “Cultivating Gratitude: The Seven Signs from Heaven”, in Pebbles in the Pond: Transforming the World One Person at a Time, Wave Four, →ISBN, OCLC 913537222, page 52:
- During my grandparents’ generation and the generation before, most of the clansmen were illiterate, but they were deeply religious and followed traditional ways. They spoke the Chaozhou (Teochew) dialect and were originally from the Chenghai district of the city of Shantou, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chenghai.
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Synonyms
- (postal romanization) Tenghai
Translations
a district and former county of China
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