Qionghai

English

Alternative forms

(from Wade–Giles) Ch'iung-hai

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 瓊海／琼海 (Qiónghǎi).

Proper noun

Qionghai

A sub-prefectural city in Hainan, China.
- 2015 August 4, Brett Cole, “An Exchange in Australia Woos Listings From China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 August 2015, DealBook‎:
  Born in Qionghai on the island of Hainan to a local government official and a stay-at-home mother, Mr. Wang studied environmental engineering at Donghua University in Shanghai, graduating in 1984.

Translations

sub-prefectural city

Chinese:
Mandarin: 瓊海／琼海 (zh) (Qiónghǎi)
Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

Qionghai, Ch'iunghai, Chiunghai at Google Ngram Viewer
Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qionghai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 3

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