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Huaibei
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Huáiběi
English
Alternative forms
en Huaipei Huai-pei Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of en cmn 淮北.
Pronunciation
hwī′bā′
en Huai bei
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city in northern p/Anhui c/China.
en 1964 Jen Yu-ti<t:zh 任育地> The Middle and Lower Yellow River Region zh:中国地理概述<t:A Concise Geography of China> https://archive.org/details/concisegeography0000unse/ Peking w:Foreign Languages Press 799178199 122 https://archive.org/details/concisegeography0000unse/page/122/ The Yangtse and Huai Rivers cut through Anhwei, dividing it into three areas from north to south — Huaipei, Huainan and Wannan.The greater part of Huaipei, the area north of the Huai, consists of plain less than 50 metres above sea level. In the past it was almost all dry land, growing mainly wheat and sweet potatoes. on
en July 6, 1970 July 5, 1970 CHINESE MASSES WORK ON CANALS w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20231008150543/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/06/archives/chinese-masses-work-on-canals-peking-mobilizes-17-million-for-3.html 08 October 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/06/archives/chinese-masses-work-on-canals-peking-mobilizes-17-million-for-3.html 0362-4331 1645522 7 The biggest project completed this year was the construction of a 150‐mile waterway linking Honan, Anhwei and Kiangsu Provinces across the Huaipei Plain.The Huaipei plain project was launched in 1966, but in Hupeh Province 600,000 workers re portedly took only six months to build a 60 mile‐long canal. on
en September 5, 1978 Jay Mathews Jay Mathews Between Puffs, Chinese Warned on Cigarette Hazards w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20240504121140/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/09/06/between-puffs-chinese-warned-on-cigarette-hazards/96c0d4c1-23bb-4950-acfe-58d9f67814fb/ May 04, 2024 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/09/06/between-puffs-chinese-warned-on-cigarette-hazards/96c0d4c1-23bb-4950-acfe-58d9f67814fb/ 0362-4331 1645522 The newspaper said that in the central Chinese town of Huaipei, every purchaser of a pack of Unity cigarettes also had to buy a pack of Chianghuai cigarettes, even though they were considered a much inferior brand. on
en December 8, 2014 5 Chinese students die after school wall collapses https://web.archive.org/web/20230312072335/https://apnews.com/article/812d37e0e44d4da7a840b65cfd38e2d6 12 March 2023 w:AP News The wall fell on the schoolgirls as they gathered on the sidelines of an outdoor basketball game at Tongren Middle School in the city of Huaibei, the Anhui Administration of Work Safety said on its official website.
Translations
a prefecture-level city in eastern China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 淮北
Mandarin: cmn 淮北 Huáiběi
Japanese: ja 淮北 わいほく, Waihoku
Korean: ko ^화이베이
Russian: ru Хуайбэ́й m
Vietnamese: vi Hoài Bắc
Further reading
en 1998 Huaibei Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1320 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1320/ 2
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en 2-syllable words