Hegang

He·gang
H4E1G2A1N1G2

proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.

    The explosion took place at the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang City, in Heilongjiang province, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

    2009 November 21, Keith Bradsher, “At Least 92 Die in Chinese Mine Explosion”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2013
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    The inmates who had survived until the collapse of the "Manchukuo" regime were now telling the People's Government with bitterness and hatred about what the puppet rulers had done to them. A peasant of Hokang city was arrested in 1944 and taken to the police headquarters on a charge of anti-Manchukuo and anti-Japanese activities. There were seventeen others there with him, and after being viciously beaten they were moved to the Hokang Reformatory and forced to mine coal in the Tungshan mines.

    [1964, Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, “From Fear to Recognizing my Guilt”, in W. J. F. Jenner, transl., From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, Second edition, volume 2, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, published 1979, →OCLC, page 386

    The principal coal centers are Kisi, northeast of Mutankiang, and Hokang and Shwangyashan, in the Kiamusze area, all producing coal of coking quality. Hokang, the most important coal field, has 5 billion tons of Jurassic coal, part of which is accessible to strip-mining operations. Development of the Hokang basin began in 1936 with construction of a rail spur southward to the riverside coal terminal of Lienkiangkow on the Sungari River, opposite Kiamusze.

    [1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 271

    Zou, from Hegang, a city in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, paid an unspecified sum for the TOEFL and $2,000 for the SAT, Kitchen told a judge in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh.

    2015 October 29, Joe Mandak, “Chinese woman pleads guilty in college test-taking scheme”, in AP News, sourced from PITTSBURGH (AP), archived from the original on 09 May 2024

Origin

  1. Mandarin鶴崗 /鹤岗
  2. EnglishHegang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鶴崗 /鹤岗 (Hègǎng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 鶴崗 /鹤岗
  • 鶴崗 /鹤岗 (hok⁶ gong¹)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 鶴崗 /鹤岗
  • 鶴崗 /鹤岗 (Hègǎng)prefecture-level city
Cite this entry
APA

Hegang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hegang

MLA

“Hegang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hegang. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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