Haiyuan

Hai·yuan
H4A1I1Y4U1A1N1

proper noun

A county of Zhongwei, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Zhongwei, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

    – China, 1920: up to 235,000 reported killed This earthquake, measured at 8.3, hit the Haiyuan county of the northern province of Ningxia and caused aftershocks for several years.

    2017 September 8, “Most powerful and deadly quakes of the past 100 years”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2021
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    After interviewing older people and gathering information from many available sources, the scientists presented a preliminary report identifying 58 kinds of domestic and wild animals that had shown unusual activities before those earthquakes. As an example, one chapter of the report describes that before the magnitude 8.5 earthquake, China’s largest, struck in Haiyuan County, Ninghsia Province, northwestern China, in 1920, wolves ran about in packs, sparrows flew around wildly, and dogs barked in a most unusual way.

    1978 November-December, Ling-huang Shen, “Can Animals Help to Predict Earthquakes?”, in Earthquake Information Bulletin, volume 10, number 6, United States Geological Survey, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 232–233

    In Tunghsin and Haiyuan counties north of the Liupan Mountains the Red Army helped the Hui people set up the Yuhai Hui Autonomous Government in August 1936, the first self-governing Hui power in Chinese history.

    1979 February, Yu-huai Ma, “Twenty Years of the Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVIII, number 2, Peking, →OCLC, page 34, column 2

    His cousin, a contractor who led him to the job three years ago, only started working last week after the Lunar New Year break, said Zou, who hails from a village in Haiyuan county, Ningxia, in China’s northwest.

    2020 May 3, Mandy Zuo, “Food delivery jobs put bread on the table for Chinese confronted with pandemic crisis and unemployment”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2020, Society

Origin

  1. Mandarin海原
  2. EnglishHaiyuan

From Mandarin 海原 (Hǎiyuán).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 海原
  • 海原 (hoi² jyun⁴)county
Chinese Mandarin 海原
  • 海原 (Hǎiyuán)county

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APA

Haiyuan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haiyuan

MLA

“Haiyuan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haiyuan. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Haiyuan,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haiyuan.

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