Meanings
- A Hui district in Luoyang, Henan, China.
[…]Chanhe District, Luoyang City, the guild hall started to be built in the 9th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign (1744 AD) in the Qing Dynasty, with the donations made by merchants from Luding Prefecture (present-day Changzhi) and[…]
2007, 河南文化遗产: 全国重点文物保护单位, 文物出版社, →ISBN, →OCLC3 more examples
Police and firefighters rushed to the scene but were prevented by thick smoke from entering the dance hall. Some of the trapped victims jumped from the building onto air mats put out by the rescuers. Most of the 309 dead came from urban Laocheng, Chanhe, and Xigong districts of Luoyang: they were suffocated by the fumes.
2005, Sandra Forty, “Luoyang Fire, China, 2000”, in Disasters, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 190Although the population is highly homogeneous with 98.8% being Han, Henan has the largest Muslim Hui population in eastern China, which constitute approximately 1% and lives mostly in Muslim enclaves in the Guancheng District (in Zhengzhou), the Chanhe District (in Luoyang) and the Shunhe District (in Kaifeng).
2013, Rongxing Guo, “Henan”, in Regional China: A Business and Economic Handbook, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 133Allegedly, Yue confessed that he himself went to a Luoyang local scoundrel named Ma Tulong (also nicknamed Ma Longzi) in Dongguan in today's Chanhe district of Luoyang and asked Ma to have the work done at the price of 5,000 Chinese yuan.
2020, Dong Wang, “Blighted Beauty: Longmen and Cultural Heritage Law in Early Twentieth-Century China”, in Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187
Origin
- Mandarin瀍河
- EnglishChanhe
From Mandarin 瀍河 (Chánhé).
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Chinese Cantonese 瀍河
- 瀍河 (cin⁴ ho⁴)Hui district
Chinese Mandarin 瀍河
- 瀍河 (Chánhé)Hui district
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Chanhe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chanhe
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