Xinghualing

Xing·hua·ling
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/ˌʃɪŋ.hwɑˈlɪŋ/

proper noun

A district of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A district of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.

    Meanwhile the T'ai-Yuan-Fu Boys' Boarding School had been transferred to new, more commodious and well-equipped buildings on the Hsing-Hua-Ling site.

    [1957, Henry Raymond Williamson, British Baptists in China, 1845-1952, →OCLC, page 106
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    The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) confirmed Wednesday that a Beijing CCTV reporter detained by Shanxi Province prosecutors is under investigation for accepting bribes. It also said the Xinghualing District People’s Procuratorate in Taiyuan city, Shanxi, had jurisdiction over the case, and the SPP confirmed the reporter’s detention.

    2008 December 12, Manman Han, “Shanxi prosecuters say CCTV reporter took bribes”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 3

    In September of 2011, the Shanxi Combined Transport Group Company brought an action in the Taiyuan Xinghualing District People's Court (Shanxi Province), apparently alleging that Chapter V of the AML and Article 7 of the AUCL had been breached by the Taiyuan Railway Bureau (TRB), a local office of China's Ministry of Railway^([sic – meaning Railways]).

    2013, Michael Faure, Xinzhu Zhang, editors, The Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 126

    “The suspect, Feng Zhijun, was arrested in Taiyuan,” said a report Friday by the state-run Xinhua news agency. It described Mr. Feng as a 41-year-old resident of Xinghualing District in Taiyuan who previously served a nine-year prison sentence for robbery.

    2013 November 7, Gerry Mullany, “Police Arrest Suspect in Northern China Blasts”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022, Sinosphere

    The patient was a 27-year-old female named Guo, working as a teacher in North University of China. She lived at Wuyi Road, Xinghualing District, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province.

    2018, Boxin Guo, Traditional Chinese Medicine Is An Intangible Science: My Medical Practice, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86

Origin

  1. Mandarin杏花嶺 /杏花岭
  2. EnglishXinghualing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 杏花嶺 /杏花岭 (Xìnghuālǐng, literally “apricot blossom ridge”).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 杏花嶺 /杏花岭
  • 杏花嶺 /杏花岭 (hang⁶ faa¹ ling⁵)district
Chinese Mandarin 杏花嶺 /杏花岭
  • 杏花嶺 /杏花岭 (Xìnghuālǐng)district
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