Meanings
- A district of Sanya, Hainan, China.
Houhai Village is situated in Haitang District, Sanya City, Hainan Province, at the southernmost tip of China, as shown in Figure 1. Although administratively part of Sanya City, Houhai’s proximity to the urban core does not dissolve its rurality.
2026 January 21, Shize Zhang, “Urban-rural hierarchy, rural agency, and planetary thinking: Learning from a village in China”, in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, volume 58, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3961 more example
The Chinese resort city of Sanya has ordered all tourists to take polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, and those who fail to do so by noon on Tuesday will be slapped with a yellow code restricting their mobility, according to local officials. The city in the southern province of Hainan logged two asymptomatic Covid-19 cases on Monday. It carried out a round of mass testing and locked down several areas in Haitang district, including a scenic island that received around 2,000 tourists on Monday.
2022 October 4, Xinlu Liang, “Chinese resort city slaps ‘golden week’ tourists with new Covid-19 restrictions”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2022, Politics
Origin
- Mandarin海棠
- EnglishHaitang
From Mandarin 海棠 (Hǎitáng).
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Chinese Cantonese 海棠
- 海棠district
Chinese Mandarin 海棠
- 海棠 (Hǎitáng)district
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Haitang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haitang
“Haitang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haitang. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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