Meanings
alternative Ch'ang-pai · alternative Changpai
- An autonomous county of Baishan, Jilin, China.
Three villages in Changbai County and two cities in the northeastern border province of Jilin, have been designated for the camps, according to the document from China Mobile.
2017 December 11, Jane Perlez, “Fearing the Worst, China Plans Refugee Camps on North Korean Border”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2017, Asia Pacific4 more examples
ARF organizations have established themselves in wide areas of China, too, inhabited largely by Koreans. This year the Changbai County Committee of the ARF has been set up, and the Korean National Liberation League has been formed as part of the ARF inside the country.
1980 [1937 March 29], Kim Il Sung, “Let Us Inspire the People with Hopes of National Liberation by Advancing with Large Forces into the Motherland”, in Kim Il Sung Works, volume 1, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, pages 122–123The radiation level in Changbai Korean autonomous county – the closest Chinese urban area to the Punggye-ri test facility – climbed gradually from an average of 104.9 nanograys per hour immediately after the test on Sunday to 108.5 on Tuesday, according to figures released by China’s environment ministry.
2017 September 6, Stephen Chen, “China detects rising radiation levels in areas close to North Korean nuclear blast site”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2017, Diplomacy & DefenseBut a Chinese businessman we met in Changbai County complained that now, he can only deal in pine mushrooms and pine nuts, which he sells to the United States, Japan and South Korea.
2018 April 12, Sue-Lin Wong, Damir Sagolj, “The Cold Frontier, Part Three: A journey along North Korea's edge”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022, APAC“[China’s] Changbai county [in Jilin province] and [North Korea’s] Hyesan [city in Yanggang province] are so tense that one barely sees any cars or people around,” said the source, who also asked to remain unnamed.
2018 September 20, Joonho Kim, Joshua Lipes, “North Korea Shuts Down Illegal Cell Phone Access to Chinese Networks Amid Kim-Moon Summit”, in Leejin Jun, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2018 - Synonym of Paektu (mountain): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
On the border between China and North Korea lies an active volcano called Mount Baekdu, also known as Changbai in China, that undergoes a major eruption every 1,000 years.
2023 April 13, Yejin (Jenny) Son, “An Awakening of a Geological Giant: The Next Deadly Eruption of Mount Baekdu”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2023, STEM WRITING CONTEST WINNER5 more examples
The principal rivers are the Yalu or Ai-chiang, the Tumen or Kaoli-chiang, the Sungari or Sung-hua-chiang, the Nonni, and the Hurka or Mu-tan-chiang. The three first rise within a short distance of one another, in the remote recess of the Ch'ang-pai-shan Mountains.
[1888, H. E. M. James, “Introductory”, in The Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 5For twenty-five years he has done all sorts of odd jobs: digging ginseng (a herb) in the Long White Mountains, fishing in the Black River, and washing gold dust at Hailanpao. Without this education, he would never have become an undaunted revolutionary.
[1973, Joe C. Huang, “The Formative Years - The Village”, in Heroes and Villains in Communist China: The Contemporary Chinese Novel as a Reflection of Life, New York: Pica Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33In 1607 Nurgaci proposed to remove the population oi the village of Fiohoton, near Huncun in the remote Changbaishan region, to Hetu Ala, his new capital built to the west of the old one at Fe Ala.
[1997, Pamela Kyle Crossley, The Manchus, Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63The radiation level in Changbai Korean autonomous county – the closest Chinese urban area to the Punggye-ri test facility – climbed gradually from an average of 104.9 nanograys per hour immediately after the test on Sunday to 108.5 on Tuesday, according to figures released by China’s environment ministry.[…] Similar upward trends were reported by monitoring stations in other regions, including in Antu county at the foot of Changbai Mountain and in Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture further north.
2017 September 6, Stephen Chen, “China detects rising radiation levels in areas close to North Korean nuclear blast site”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2017, Diplomacy & DefenseThe source said that a friend from Jilin’s Antu county had told him that only border crossing between the two nations by land, across North Korea’s sacred Mt. Paekdu—known in China as Mt. Changbai—had been closed from Sept. 17-21.
2018 September 20, Joonho Kim, Joshua Lipes, “North Korea Shuts Down Illegal Cell Phone Access to Chinese Networks Amid Kim-Moon Summit”, in Leejin Jun, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2018Synonyms: Paektu
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Paektu (mountain): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
Origin
- Mandarin長白 /长白
- EnglishChangbai
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 長白 /长白 (Chángbái).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 長白 /长白
- 長白 /长白 (coeng⁴ baak⁶)Korean autonomous county
Chinese Mandarin 長白 /长白
- 長白 /长白 (Chángbái)Korean autonomous county
Japanese 長白
- 長白 (Chōhaku)Korean autonomous county
Korean 장백
- 장백 (jangbaek)Korean autonomous county
Polish Changbai
- ChangbaiKorean autonomous county
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