Meanings
- A county of Suihua, Heilongjiang, China.
The revolutionary committee of the Yungchiu supply and marketing cooperative in Mingshui County, Heilungkiang, has led the masses to carry out class struggle against corruption, theft, and speculation.
1970 March 6 [1970 February 23], “Heilungkiang Supply Cooperative”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 45, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Communist China: Northeast Region, page G 31 more example
A man in Heilongjiang province in northeast China who abused his wife for three years, often forcing her to work or sleep in a pigpen and eat garbage, had the appeal for his 18-month prison sentence rejected in a case that caused fury about the perceived light sentence.[…] The wife, 30, identified only by the family name Yu, married Wu, 39, in 2017 in Mingshui county and he started abusing her shortly after, a court document showed.
2021 April 30, Zhuang Pinghui, “Outrage over light sentence for man in China who violently abused wife and forced her to sleep in pigsty”, in South China Morning Post, sourced from Beijing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2021, People & Culture
Origin
- Mandarin明水
- EnglishMingshui
From Mandarin 明水 (Míngshuǐ).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 明水
- 明水 (ming⁴ seoi²)county
Chinese Mandarin 明水
- 明水 (Míngshuǐ)county
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