Hengshui

Héngshuǐ English Alternative forms en Heng-shui Wade-Giles Etymology From en cmn 衡水. Pronunciation hŭng′shwā′Hengshui 775 3 en Heng shui Proper noun en prefecture-level city p/Hebei c/China. en May 29, 1891 Western Shantung North-China Herald https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1891.05.29/ Shanghai XLVI 1243 311405954 662 https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1891.05.29/page/n13/ 2 The dust-storms have been not merely unintermittent, but of a frightful character, even for North China. Within the past two or three weeks they have taken the form of violent winds, each of which at sea would almost make a young typhoon. In the Hengshui district we hear that the roof of a theatrical pavilion was blown for miles, and that two children were blown away, one killed, and the other never heard of. en 1970 Annual summary of information on natural disasters 1966 https://archive.org/details/annualsummaryofi1966unse/ https://books.google.com/books?id=lBdOAQAAIAAJ Belgium w:Unesco 1148058670 26 https://archive.org/details/annualsummaryofi1966unse/page/26/ The New China agency reported that numerous building and houses collapsed but that the number of casualties was less than on 8 March, when people had been caught in their sleep. The worst damage was done at Hsing-t’ai, Heng-shui and Shih-chia-chuang [1]; numerous aftershocks (Nos. 186-90) were felt in the same region up to 29 March. on en April 12, 1981 L. Chen Disastrous acts of dismounting Free China Weekly https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-04-12_22_14/ XXII 14 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-04-12_22_14/page/n2/ The People's Daily on March 3 demanded that "hsia ma" items be attended to with proper rehabilitation efforts. "Through maximum utilization, dead things should be brought back alive," the editorial on page 1 urged.Two-thirds of page 2 was devoted to a description of how an iron mill at Hengshui, Hopei province, was torn into pieces and sold at giveaway prices. en April 25, 2019 11 die as elevator cable snaps at work site in north China w:AP News https://web.archive.org/web/20240507072119/https://apnews.com/general-news-dc0b32674c814af5b4358126a8d7040e May 07, 2024 https://apnews.com/general-news-dc0b32674c814af5b4358126a8d7040e The Voice of China radio said the accident, the latest in a series of deadly industrial incidents, occurred around 8 a.m. in the Hebei province city of Hengshui. Translations prefecture-level city Chinese: Cantonese: yue 衡水 Mandarin: cmn 衡水 Héngshuǐ Japanese: ja References Further reading en 1998 Hengshui 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 1267 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1267/ 1