Qinggil

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proper noun

A county of Altay prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Altay prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

    The news story that Kama read was about an elderly person named Abibao in Qinggil County who had raised ten orphans.

    2021, Li Juan, translated by Jack Hargreaves and Yan Yan, Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders, 1st edition, Astra Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=aML0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT288
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    Sheep ked were collected in the spring of 2014 from the Qinggil County (89°47’–91°04’ E, 45°00’–47°20’N), Xinjiang UAR, China.

    2017, Zhi-Qiang Liu, Nuer Kuermanali, Zhao Li, Shi-Jun Chen, Yuan-Zhi Wang, Han Tao, Chuang-Fu Chen, “The complete mitochondrial genome of the parasitic sheep ked Melophagus ovinus (Diptera: Hippoboscidae)”, in Mitochondrial DNA Part B, volume 2, number 2, via Taylor & Francis, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2021, page 432

    Meanwhile, in the Altay region of Xinjiang, which borders Kazakhstan, authorities recently detained three ethnic Kazakhs in Qinggil (in Chinese, Qinghe) county, a former township official told RFA. "Three people in Qinggil county have been detained, and we are trying to find out where they are," the former official said. "We found out [on Saturday] that they have been detained, but we don't know where they're being held."

    2017 December 18, Qiao Long, “China Detains Kazakhs During 'Unity Week' in Troubled Xinjiang Region”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2020

    In the Qinggil rebel group, political power was concentrated in the hands of Osman, Sugurbayow and other Kazakh figures, while the political leader of the Jiminay faction was the Uyghur Molla Islam Ismayil.

    2018, Wang Ke, translated by Carissa Fletcher, The East Turkestan Independence Movement, 1930s to 1940s, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 190

    Synonyms: Qinghe, Ch'ing-ho

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA county of Altay prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Also see

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 青河
  • 青河 (Qīnghé)county
Japanese チンギル
  • チンギル (chingiru)county
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Qinggil,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Qinggil.

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