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Haimen
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Hǎimén
English
Alternative forms
en Hai-men Wade-Giles
Etymology
Borrowed from en cmn - 海門 Hǎimén sea gate.
Pronunciation
hī′mŭn′Haimen 745 2
en Hai men
en
Proper noun
en district prefecture-level city/Nantong province/Jiangsu country/China ; former county-level city/and/former county prefecture-level city/Nantong province/Jiangsu country/China.
en 1926 w:Paul Vidal de La Blache w:Millicent Todd Bingham Principles of Human Geography https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.10422/ 1959 London Constable (publisher) Constable Publishers 639919909 76 https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.10422/page/n94/ At the mouth of the Yangtze, population-density on the island of Tsungming and the peninsula Haimen reaches an exaggerated figure, the one of 1475, the other of 700 inhabitants per square kilometre.
en February 17, 1939 JAPANESE TO SEIZE NEW COASTAL AREA; Foreign Shipping Is Warned of Move to Tighten Blockade South of Shanghai FRENCH IN HANKOW CLASH Gunboat to Aid Americans at Kuling--Invaders Shifting North in Guerrilla Fight w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20231020190718/https://www.nytimes.com/1939/02/17/archives/japanese-to-seize-new-coastal-area-foreign-shipping-is-warned-of.html 20 October 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/1939/02/17/archives/japanese-to-seize-new-coastal-area-foreign-shipping-is-warned-of.html 0362-4331 1645522 13 Japanese authorities served notice today that they intended to land troops at Haimen, 200 miles down the coast from Shanghai, later tomorrow in a new move to tighten the China coast blockade.
en 10 November 1969 9 November 1969 Articles of Dialectic Materialism Hailed Daily Report: Communist China I 218 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049261434&seq=139 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Nanking Kiangsu Provincial Service cmn 31371214 Communist China: East Region C 15 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049261434&seq=188 The article by the cadres and commune members of the (Chunghsing) production brigade of (Tahsing) people's commune in Haimen County reveals that the correct method of work cannot be differentiated from the correct method of thinking and the correct world outlook, The method of work promoted by Chairman Mao is one of dialectic materialism.
en April 4, 2023 Crispian Balmer Vatican says China has unilaterally appointed bishop to Shanghai Raissa Kasolowsky; Jonathan Oatis w:Reuters https://web.archive.org/web/20230405032052/https://www.reuters.com/world/vatican-says-china-has-unilaterally-appointed-bishop-shanghai-2023-04-04/ April 05, 2023 https://www.reuters.com/world/vatican-says-china-has-unilaterally-appointed-bishop-shanghai-2023-04-04/ World The Holy See was informed "a few days ago" of the decision by China to transfer Bishop Shen Bin from Haimen, in the Jiangsu province, to the diocese of Shanghai, the Vatican said.
Translations
district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China; former county-level city and county of Jiangsu, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 海門
Mandarin: cmn 海門 Hǎimén
References
Further reading
en 1998 Haimen 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 1214 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1214/ 3
Anagrams
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