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Bei'an
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beian běi'àn bèi'àn Běi'ān
English
Alternative forms
en Beian
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 北安.
Pronunciation
en /(ˈ)beɪˈɑn/ /-æn/
bāʹänʹen 1952 Pehan or Peian Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1445 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1445/ 2
en Bei ancf. zh 2012-06-29 zh:中華人民共和國國家標準<t:Basic rules of the Chinese phonetic alphabet orthography> Pinyin.info https://web.archive.org/web/20160213103922/https://pinyin.info/rules/GBT16159-2012_traditional.html https://pinyin.info/rules/GBT16159-2012_traditional.html February 13, 2016 zh 6.6.2 音節前有隔音符號,移行時,去掉隔音符號,加連接號。 6.6.2 If there is syllable dividing mark before a syllable, remove the syllable dividing mark and add a hyphen when moving to another line.
Proper noun
en county-level city prefecture-level city/Heihe p/Heilongjiang c/China.
en 1972 January w:China Reconstructs https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1972-01/ w:China Welfare Institute XXI 1 0009-4447 1554324 1 https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1972-01/page/n2/ Inside back: Wheat harvest at the Pei-an County State Farm, Heilungkiang province. on
en 2014 w:David Eimer Along the Amur The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China https://archive.org/details/emperorfarawaytr0000eime/ w:Bloomsbury USA 978-1-62040-363-1 937859024 26186017M 297 https://archive.org/details/emperorfarawaytr0000eime/page/297/ Han and originally from Bei’an, a city further south in Heilongjiang known for its high-security jail, large psychiatric facility and a preponderance of criminal gangs, he was now running his own English school in Heihe.
Translations
county-level city
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 北安
Mandarin: cmn 北安 Běi'ān
References
Further reading
en 2008 Bei’an Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 359 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/359/ 1