411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
Qinghai
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
Qīnghǎi
English
Alternative forms
en Tsinghai Tsing-hai
en Chinghai Ch'ing-hai Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en Brian Hook 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 81-9927 781411242 476, 477 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/477/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Ch'ing-hai (Qinghai) zh 靑海en 1998 Blunden Caroline Gazetteer Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 232, 235 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/235/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Qinghai (l)/Ch'ing-hai/Koko Nor romanization of the en cmn 青海//靑海 Blue Sea Qīnghǎi.
Pronunciation
en /ˈt͡ʃɪŋˈhaɪ/
chĭng′hī′Tsinghai, Chinghai, or Ch’ing-hai, or Koko Nor 1953 1 Tsinghai, Chinghai, or Ch’ing-hai (all: chĭng′hī′), or Koko Nor (kōkō nōr′) [all mean "blue sea"],Qinghai geographical name Qing·hai ˈchiŋ-ˈhīTsing·hai 783 1
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Qinghai.wav Southern England
en aɪ 2
en Qing hai
Proper noun
en Q45833en province in northwestern c/China Xining.
en 1970 R. F. Price Part-time schools and classes Brian Holmes Education in Communist China World education series https://archive.org/details/bringincommunitc0000unse/ New York; Washington w:Praeger Publishers 70-114345 81481 215 https://archive.org/details/bringincommunitc0000unse/page/215/ In Qinghai (Chinghai) Province, 300 schools in six xian surrounding the provincial capital, Xi’ningXining (Sining), had 10,000 students in 1964. Part-work schools in the province enabled 8 per cent of the age-group to attend school, including some go per cent of those children from poor and lower middle peasant families (SCMP 3350, 1964). Qinghai (Chinghai) also reported 100 ‘tent-schools’, moving with the herdsmen over the grazing grounds.
en 1975 The National Minority Languages of China w:Winfred P. Lehmann Language and Linguistics in the People's Republic of China https://archive.org/details/languagelinguist00ageh/ w:University of Texas Press 0-292-74615-6 75-3572 462849192 119 https://archive.org/details/languagelinguist00ageh/page/119/ Tibetan is found predominantly in Tibet; Tibetan-speaking communities are also found in Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan, and Gansu. In Tibet, all official documents are issued in both Tibetan and Chinese, and also in certain regions of Sichuan and Qinghai. Moreover, the radio stations in Tibet broadcast in Tibetan and Putonghua. Similarly, the Chengdu radio station in Sichuan and the Xining radio station in Qinghai also have regular Tibetan broadcasts.
en 2001 Kim Dramer China's Sorrow The Yellow River https://archive.org/details/yellowriver00kimd/ w:Franklin Watts 0-531-11855-X 00-039925 44067026 Juvenile Literature 7–8 https://archive.org/details/yellowriver00kimd/page/7 The source of the Yellow River is in the Qinghai Province on the Tibetan Plateau. This area is often called the "Roof of the World" because of its high altitude, the height of a place above sea level.
en January 20, 2018 Chris Buckley; Adam Wu Where China Built Its Bomb, Dark Memories Haunt the Ruins w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20180120112936/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/world/asia/china-jinyintan-atomic-city.html 20 January 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/world/asia/china-jinyintan-atomic-city.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific The decaying clusters of workshops, bunkers and dormitories are remnants of Plant 221, also known as China’s Los Alamos. Here, on a mountain-high grassland called Jinyintan in Qinghai Province, thousands of Tibetan and Mongolian herders were expelled to create a secret town where a nuclear arsenal was built to defend Mao Zedong’s revolution.
en
en Q201294en large lake p:suf/Qinghai the largest in China + + Lake.
en Qinghai Lake
Synonyms
en Amdo as a Tibetan region
en Koko Nor, en Koko-nur, en Kokonor, the lake, region and province, historical
Translations
a Chinese province
Arabic: ar تْشِينْغْهَاي m tšinḡhay, ar تْشِينْغْخَاي m tšinḡḵay
Armenian: hy Ցինհայ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 青海 cing1 hoi2
Mandarin: cmn 青海 Qīnghǎi, cmn 靑海
Czech: cs Čching-chaj
Esperanto: eo Ĉinghajo
Georgian: ka ცინხაი
Greek: el Τσινγκχάι
Hindi: hi चिंगहई m
Hungarian: hu Csinghaj
Indonesian: id Qinghai
Japanese: ja 青海 せいかい, Seikai
Korean: ko ^칭하이, ko ^청해
Latvian: lv Cjinhai
Lithuanian: lt Činghajus
Macedonian: mk Чи́нгхај
Manchu: mnc ᡴᡠᡴᡝ ᠨᠣᠣᡵ, mnc ᡥᡠᡥᡠ ᠨᠣᠣᡵ
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Хөхнуур
Mongolian script: mn ᠬᠥᠬᠡᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ, mn ᠬᠥᠬᠡ ᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ
Polish: pl Qinghai n
Russian: ru Цинха́й m
Salar: slr Göxdeñiz, slr Gökhdengiz
Thai: th ชิงไห่
Tibetan: bo མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན, bo ཁུ་ཁེ་རྲོའུར
Urdu: ur چنگھائی ciṅghāī
Vietnamese: vi Thanh Hải
Zhuang: za Cinghhaij
See also
References
Further reading
Qinghai, Ch'ing-hai, Ching-hai, Ch'inghai, Chinghai, Tsinghai, Tsing-hai
en 1998 Qingjian Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2546 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2546/ 3