Ha-êrh-pin

English Alternative forms en Ha-erh-pin also from _ Wade-Giles Etymology From en cmn 哈爾濱 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Ha¹-êrh³-pin¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Ha'erbin (Harbin) en 1900 March May 8, 1899 Alex Hosie Consul Hosie to Mr. Henry Bax-Ironside Bax-Ironside Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of China https://archive.org/details/cu31924023185204/page/n154/ 195 London w:Harrison and Sons 864813373 154 https://archive.org/details/cu31924023185204/page/n331/ I come now to the northern section between K'uan Ch'êng-tzŭ and Stretensk. 20 li south of the Sungari, and in a direct line between Hulan and A-Shih-ho, a Russian town called Ha-êrh-pin or Ha-mo has sprung up round what was originally a solitary Chinese house. en https://books.google.com/books?id=NltIAAAAYAAJ 1900 Consular Reports: Commerce, Manufactures, Etc. 62 w:Government Printing Office 1533624 410 https://books.google.com/books?id=NltIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA410&lpg=PA410 The eastern section from Vladivostock- which crosses the Manchurian frontier at San-Ch'a-kou and will pass a few miles to the north of Ninguta, go westward to Yi-mien-p'o, and northwest to A-shih-ho, leaving that town on its left- will join the southern section on the south bank of the Sungari. The junction is really effected at a place called Ha-êrh-pin (Harbin), some 6 miles to the south of the river. en 1910 Alexander Hosie Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History https://archive.org/details/manchuriaitspeop00hosi/ 14 J. B. Millet Company 14689904 52 https://archive.org/details/manchuriaitspeop00hosi/page/52/ There was one solitary house - a Chinese distillery - on the spot at the time; but at the present moment Ha-êrh-pin, Ha-mo, or Harbin as is it now generally called, is a largest town of several thousand inhabitants, consisting for the most part of Russians connected with, and for the protection of, the Trans-Manchurian Railway. en 1912 Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea https://archive.org/details/northernchinaval00madr/ Hachette & Company 58389296 255 https://archive.org/details/northernchinaval00madr/page/255/ https://books.google.com/books?id=lkNMAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA255 KharbinIt is quite a modern Russian town having been founded in 1899 as a centre for the administration of the East China Railyway and the civil and military control of Manchuria. The Celestials call it Ha-êrh-pin. The city was officially opened to international trade on the 14th January 1907, in accordance with the terms of the Chino-Japanese treaty of the 22nd December 1905. Translations Ha'erbin