Hailar

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proper noun

A district and former county-level city of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.

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Haila'erHailaerhHai-la-erh
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A district and former county-level city of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.

    The aircraft was reported to have landed at Hailar, a city of about 100,000 people in Inner Mongolia about 70 miles from the Soviet border.

    1985 December 25, “SOVIET AIRLINER REPORTEDLY HIJACKED TO CHINA”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, section 1, page 4
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    After visiting Hailar, the trade centre of North-Eastern Mongolia and Trans-Hingan Manchuria, Dr. Fritsche entered Russian territory at Tsurukhaitu.

    1874 June 22, Henry Bartle Frere, Address to the Royal Geographical Society, page clxxvi

    The first outbreak continued without any interruption at Manchouli and passed on to the other cities until its suppression in the following April. The second outbreak did not show its full virulence until November, at Hailar, where I personally examined the early bubonic cases and saw the gradual evolution through the septicemic into the pulmonary form.

    1922, Lien Teh Wu, “Plague in the Orient with Special Reference to the Manchurian Outbreaks”, in Addresses & Papers, Dedication Ceremonies and Medical Conference, Peking Union Medical College, September 15-22, 1921, Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, →OCLC, page 193

    From the time the Allies invited them into Harbin (the end of December, 1917), Chinese troops had been moving rapidly along the Chinese Eastern Railway to take over garrison duties throughout the zone.⁹ According to Semenov, it was only through a combination of force and trickery that he was able to keep Hailar and Manchouli out of their hands.¹⁰

    1957, James William Morley, The Japanese Thrust into Siberia, 1918, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 85

    Hailar district, an administrative division about three hours away from Manzhouli, has blocked some roads linking it to the outside and required people arriving from Manzhouli to be quarantined at centralised facilities for two weeks.

    2021 November 28, Roxanne Liu, Gabriel Crossley, “Parts of northern China tighten curbs on new COVID-19 flare-ups”, in Kim Coghill, Gerry Doyle, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2021, China

    Synonyms: Haila'er, Hailaerh, Hai-la-erh

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA district and former county-level city of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.

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Haila'erHailaerhHai-la-erh

Origin

  1. MongolianХайлаар
  2. EnglishHailar

From Mongolian Хайлаар (Xailaar)/ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠯᠠᠷ (qayilar).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 海拉爾 /海拉尔
  • 海拉爾 /海拉尔 (Hǎilā'ěr)district and former county-level city in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China
Russian Хайлар
  • Хайлар (Xajlar)district and former county-level city in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China
Cite this entry
APA

Hailar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hailar

MLA

“Hailar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hailar. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hailar,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hailar.

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