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Beihai
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bèihài Běihǎi
English
thumb|250px|right|Part of the Nine Dragon Wall in Beihai Park
Alternative forms
en Pei-hai obs.
Etymology
The atonal en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - 北海 North Sea.
Pronunciation
bāʹhīʹen 1952 Pakhoi Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1412 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1412/ 3 Mandarin Peihai (bāʹhīʹ)
en aɪ 2
en Bei hai
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city ar/Guangxi in southern c/China.
en 1968 Theodore Shabad PEI-HAI w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/ 17 68-10064 1036882 529 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/page/n582/ 1-2 The port was opened to foreign trade by the Chefoo Convention of 1876, and in the succeeding period a considerable traffic was developed by coolies and transport animals between Pei-hai and the Hsi Chiang Valley of Kwangsi Province. on
en 24 May 1978 23 May 1978 Vietnamese Shoot at Overseas Chinese Refugee Boat Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 101 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578692&seq=543 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Hong Kong Wen Wei Po WEN WEI PO, p 1 zh 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: Hong Kong Communist Press N 3 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578692&seq=614 Wang Chiu-fu and his family of four finally arrived at Peihai Municipality in Kwangsi after much hardship. They received a warm reception from the local government and people. on
en September 28, 2014 4 boys in China drown while searching for eggs https://web.archive.org/web/20220622090546/https://apnews.com/article/e721575dcf0f4df6837974b7845924a0 22 June 2022 w:AP News The city of Beihai in the southern province of Guangxi said in a statement online that the four boys — three of them aged 12 and one of them 11 — were searching in a city bay Saturday afternoon when they drowned.
en lake special municipality/Beijing c/China.
en 1978 Chih-yen Hsia Liang-lao Dee The Coldest Winter in Peking https://archive.org/details/coldestwinterinp00xiaz/ w:Garden City, New York w:Doubleday & Co. 0-385-13402-9 77-26522 1067816302 311 https://archive.org/details/coldestwinterinp00xiaz/page/311/ The pure waters of the Northern Lake (Pei-hai) originated in the Jade Spring Mountain and passed through the long Grand Canal and flowed through Shih-ch'a Lake. Then it fed into the Central Lake (Chung-hai) and the Southern Lake (Nan-hai), all the way to the Tung-tzu River. on
en September 3, 2006 July 26, 2006 Lili The Frugal Traveler Sees the World w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230118103017/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/travel/the-frugal-traveler-sees-the-world.html National https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/travel/the-frugal-traveler-sees-the-world.html January 18, 2023 0362-4331 1645522 Section 5/Travel 1 Beijing is changing fast to get ready for the Olympics -- definitely wander the hutongs before they are demolished. If you're looking for a cheap place to stay run by the nicest of people, try Downtown Backpackers (No. 85, Nanluogu Alley, Dongcheng District). It's in the middle of a nice little hutong area a short walk from the Houhai/Beihai Lakes area.
Synonyms
from Cantonese Guangxi en Pakhoi, en Pak-hoi, en Pak Hoi
Related terms
en Zhongnanhai
Translations
city in Guangxi
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 北海
Mandarin: cmn 北海
Japanese: ja
Korean: ko
Russian: ru Бэйхай
References
Further reading
en 2008 Beihai 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/ 2
en Places in Beijing Parks