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Menghai
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English
Menghai County
Etymology
From en cmn 勐海.
Pronunciation
mŭng′hī′
en aɪ 2
en Meng hai
Proper noun
en county autonomous prefecture/Xishuangbanna p/Yunnan c/China.
en 15 February 1972 10 February 1972 Provincial Radios Describe Support-Army Activities Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 32 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043528937&seq=611 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA Domestic Service zh 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: National Affairs B 9 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043528937&seq=630 In describing activities by revolutionary committees at various levels, the report gave several brief accounts of how the Iliang County Revolutionary Committee decided to send a comfort team to a remote area where only three PLA fighters were maintaining the telephone lines; how the responsible persons of a certain county crossed the Nuchiang River and scaled the high Kaolikung Mountain to comfort a small PLA group in an outpost; and how Menghai County Revolutionary Committee in Hsishuangpanna Tai Autonomous Chou repeatedly invited representatives of the local PLA units to symposiums held by the revolutionary committee to solicit the PLA's opinion on its work. PLA personnel in Menghai County, according to the report, also helped the local people overcome many difficulties when the county was ravaged by a severe storm in 1971.
en January 16, 2009 Andrew Jacobs Andrew Jacobs (journalist) A County in China Sees Its Fortunes in Tea Leaves Until a Bubble Bursts w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20120213163515/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/world/asia/17tea.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/world/asia/17tea.html February 13, 2012 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Among those most bruised by the crash are the farmers of Menghai County. Many had never experienced the kind of prosperity common in China’s cities. Villagers built two-story brick homes, equipped them with televisions and refrigerators and sent their children to schools in the district capital. Flush with cash, scores of elderly residents made their first trips to Beijing.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 勐海
Japanese: ja
Further reading
Fohai 623 3 Fohai zh ^佛海Until 1929, Menghai.
en 2-syllable words