Dianbai

Diànbái English Dianbai District Alternative forms en Tien-pai Tienpai Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn -Tinpak 1916 3 Mandarin Tienpai (dyĕn′bī′) 電白. Pronunciation dyĕn′bī′ en aɪ 2 en Dian bai Proper noun en district/and/former county prefecture-level city/Maoming p/Guangdong c/China. en 1998 Bo Weikang Dianbai County (Guangdong Province) Chinese Education & Society 31 4 https://web.archive.org/web/20220629220352/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2753/CED1061-1932310441 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2753/CED1061-1932310441 June 29, 2022 Situated in the southwest of Guangdong Province, Dianbai County is bordered by Yangxi County in the east, Yangchun City in the northeast, Gaozhou City in the northwest, Maoming City in the west, Wuchuan City in the southwest, and the South China Sea in the south. en August 8, 2000 John Pomfret China Finds Rampant Cheating on College Test w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20170828200010/https://www.washingtonpost.com/web/20170828200010/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/08/08/china-finds-rampant-cheating-on-college-test/aedbf4ea-a035-46b6-be74-e270ea42c7a5 28 August 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/08/08/china-finds-rampant-cheating-on-college-test/aedbf4ea-a035-46b6-be74-e270ea42c7a5/ 0190-8286 2269358 https://archive.ph/juguD After July 7, Dianbai become synonymous with another trend in China: widespread cheating on entrance examinations.In Dianbai, shops openly sold or rented pagers that could receive exam answers and display them on their screens. en 2003 Richard Mintzer Yes, You Can Adopt!: A Comprehensive Guide to Adoption https://archive.org/details/yesyoucanadoptc00mint/ w:Carroll & Graf Publishers 0-7867-1035-7 51211298 201 https://archive.org/details/yesyoucanadoptc00mint/page/201/ There was paperwork to sign and a weekend to contend with before a day of travel from Beijing to Dianbai, the town the orphanage was in. When the bus arrived in Dianbai the orphanage director got on the bus and said we should go to our hotel in Maoming and the girls would be brought to us. en 2003-08-24 Typhoon Krovanh Approaches South China Provinces People's Daily Online http://en.people.cn/200308/24/eng20030824_122961.shtml The typhoon will hit the area between Wanning City in east Hainan Province and Dianbai County in west Guangdong Province from Sunday night. https://web.archive.org/web/20260818135150/http://en.people.cn/200308/24/eng20030824_122961.shtml 18 August 2026 Synonyms en Tinpak Postal from Cantonese Translations Chinese: Cantonese: yue 電白 din6 baak6 Mandarin: cmn 電白 Diànbái References Further reading en 2008 Dianbai 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 1015 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1015/ 2 en 2-syllable words