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Qinghai en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈt͡ʃɪŋˈhaɪ/
• chĭng′hī′

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 青海 /靑海 (Qīnghǎi, literally “Blue Sea”).

Meanings

1. A province in northwestern China. Capital: Xining.
   • The source of the Yellow River is in the Qinghai Province on the Tibetan Plateau. This area is often called the "Roof of the World" because of its high altitude, the height of a place above sea level. 2001, Kim Dramer, “China's Sorrow”, in The Yellow River (Juvenile Literature), Franklin Watts, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 7–8:
   • In Qinghai (Chinghai) Province, 300 schools in six xian surrounding the provincial capital, Xi’ning^([sic – meaning Xining]) (Sining), had 10,000 students in 1964. Part-work schools in the province enabled 8 per cent of the age-group to attend school, including some go per cent of those children from poor and lower middle peasant families (SCMP 3350, 1964). Qinghai (Chinghai) also reported 100 ‘tent-schools’, moving with the herdsmen over the grazing grounds. 1970, R. F. Price, “Part-time schools and classes”, in Brian Holmes, editor, Education in Communist China (World education series), New York; Washington: Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 215:
   • Tibetan is found predominantly in Tibet; Tibetan-speaking communities are also found in Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan, and Gansu. In Tibet, all official documents are issued in both Tibetan and Chinese, and also in certain regions of Sichuan and Qinghai. Moreover, the radio stations in Tibet broadcast in Tibetan and Putonghua. Similarly, the Chengdu radio station in Sichuan and the Xining radio station in Qinghai also have regular Tibetan broadcasts. 1975, “The National Minority Languages of China”, in Winfred P. Lehmann, editor, Language and Linguistics in the People's Republic of China, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:
   • The decaying clusters of workshops, bunkers and dormitories are remnants of Plant 221, also known as China’s Los Alamos. Here, on a mountain-high grassland called Jinyintan in Qinghai Province, thousands of Tibetan and Mongolian herders were expelled to create a secret town where a nuclear arsenal was built to defend Mao Zedong’s revolution. 2018 January 20, Chris Buckley, Adam Wu, “Where China Built Its Bomb, Dark Memories Haunt the Ruins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2018, Asia Pacific:
2. A large lake in Qinghai province, the largest in China.

Forms

Synonyms

Koko-nur · Kokonor · Amdo · Qinghai Lake · Koko Nor

Translations (34)

mk Чи́нгхај (a Chinese province) · mn ᠬᠥᠬᠡ ᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (a Chinese province) · ko 칭하이 (a Chinese province) · bo མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན (a Chinese province) · ko 청해 (a Chinese province) · cs Čching-chaj (a Chinese province) · id Qinghai (a Chinese province) · lt Činghajus (a Chinese province) · mn ᠬᠥᠬᠡᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (a Chinese province) · slr Göxdeñiz (a Chinese province) · pl Qinghai (a Chinese province) · th ชิงไห่ (a Chinese province) · slr Gökhdengiz (a Chinese province) · lv Cjinhai (a Chinese province) · mn Хөхнуур (a Chinese province) · za Cinghhaij (a Chinese province) · vi Thanh Hải (a Chinese province) · ar تْشِينْغْهَاي (a Chinese province) · ka ცინხაი (a Chinese province) · ar تْشِينْغْخَاي (a Chinese province) · mnc ᡴᡠᡴᡝ ᠨᠣᠣᡵ (a Chinese province) · ja 青海 (a Chinese province) · cmn 靑海 /青海 (a Chinese province) · bo ཁུ་ཁེ་རྲོའུར (a Chinese province) · hi चिंगहई (a Chinese province) · el Τσινγκχάι (a Chinese province) · yue 青海 (a Chinese province) · mnc ᡥᡠᡥᡠ ᠨᠣᠣᡵ (a Chinese province) · ru Цинха́й (a Chinese province) · hy Ցինհայ (a Chinese province) · cmn 青海 (a Chinese province) · hu Csinghaj (a Chinese province) · eo Ĉinghajo (a Chinese province) · ur چنگھائی (a Chinese province)

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