Meanings
proper noun
- A county of Hainan, Qinghai, China.
In Xinghai County, two young men were forced to flee to India last year when the police sought to arrest them for distributing 100 pro-independence leaflets, villagers said.
1991 September 9, Nicholas D. Kristof, “In Corner of Tibet, Chinese Now Predominate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015, Section A, page 1
Origin
- Mandarin興海 /兴海
- EnglishXinghai
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興海 /兴海 (Xìnghǎi).
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Chinese Cantonese 興海 /兴海
- 興海 /兴海 (hing¹ hoi²)county
Chinese Mandarin 興海 /兴海
- 興海 /兴海 (Xìnghǎi)county
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