Huangmei

Huang·mei
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proper noun

A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Hwangmei · alternative Huang-mei

  1. A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.

    Hoangcheu commands over nine Cities, as Hoangcheu, Lotien, Maching, Hoangpi, Hoanggan, Kixui, Ki, Hoangmui, Hoangci.

    [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14
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    As observed in the Huangmei district in south-eastern Hupeh, the Rhaetic sandstones and shales with their characteristic purple colour directly overlie the Lower Permian limestone and Silurian shale.

    1918, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China, University of Birmingham, →OCLC, page 305

    […]sending the more serious cases to Danforth in Jiujiang.⁶⁹ In her 1917 annual report, Shi wrote that her nurses had set up dispensaries in the interior cities of Huangmei (Hwangmei) and Taihu (Tai Hu).

    2011, Connie A. Shemo, “"To Stand for the Best of Everything": Shi Meiyu, 1914-1920”, in The Chinese Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1872-1937: On a Cross-Cultural Frontier of Gender, Race, and Nation (History; Medical), Lehigh University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158

    According to local government reports, the incident happened on the 1st Yangtze River Bridge that separates Huangmei county in Hubei – the province at the epicentre of the initial coronavirus outbreak – with the city of Jiujiang in Jiangxi.

    2020 March 28, Sidney Leng, “Coronavirus: police, public clash as border reopens between Hubei and Jiangxi provinces”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2020, Society

Origin

  1. Mandarin黃梅 /黄梅
  2. EnglishHuangmei

From Mandarin 黃梅 /黄梅 (Huángméi).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 黃梅 /黄梅
  • 黃梅 /黄梅 (wong⁴ mui⁴)county in central China; town in central China
Chinese Mandarin 黃梅 /黄梅
  • 黃梅 /黄梅 (Huángméi)county in central China; town in central China
Japanese 黄梅
  • 黄梅 (Kōbai)county in central China; town in central China
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Huangmei. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Huangmei

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

Chicago

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