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Haiyuan
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English
Etymology
From en cmn 海原.
Pronunciation
hī′yüăn′Haiyüan 746 2 Until 1914, Haicheng zh 海城.
en Hai yuan
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Zhongwei ar/Ningxia c/China.
en 1978 November-December Ling-huang Shen Can Animals Help to Predict Earthquakes? Earthquake Information Bulletin https://archive.org/details/sim_earthquakes-volcanoes_november-december-1978_10_6/ w:United States Geological Survey 10 6 0046-0931 14589906 232–233 https://archive.org/details/sim_earthquakes-volcanoes_november-december-1978_10_6/page/232/ After interviewing older people and gathering information from many available sources, the scientists presented a preliminary report identifying 58 kinds of domestic and wild animals that had shown unusual activities before those earthquakes. As an example, one chapter of the report describes that before the magnitude 8.5 earthquake, China’s largest, struck in Haiyuan County, Ninghsia Province, northwestern China, in 1920, wolves ran about in packs, sparrows flew around wildly, and dogs barked in a most unusual way.
en 1979 February Yu-huai Ma Twenty Years of the Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region w:China Reconstructs https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1979-02/ Peking XXVIII 2 7513641 34 https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1979-02/page/n35/ 2 In Tunghsin and Haiyuan counties north of the Liupan Mountains the Red Army helped the Hui people set up the Yuhai Hui Autonomous Government in August 1936, the first self-governing Hui power in Chinese history.
en 8 September 2017 Most powerful and deadly quakes of the past 100 years https://web.archive.org/web/20210625150544/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/9/8/most-powerful-and-deadly-quakes-of-the-past-100-years 25 June 2021 w:Al Jazeera – China, 1920: up to 235,000 reported killedThis earthquake, measured at 8.3, hit the Haiyuan county of the northern province of Ningxia and caused aftershocks for several years.
en 03 May 2020 Mandy Zuo Food delivery jobs put bread on the table for Chinese confronted with pandemic crisis and unemployment w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20200503030628/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3082332/food-delivery-jobs-put-bread-table-chinese-confronted-pandemic May 03, 2020 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3082332/food-delivery-jobs-put-bread-table-chinese-confronted-pandemic 1563-9371 648902513 Society His cousin, a contractor who led him to the job three years ago, only started working last week after the Lunar New Year break, said Zou, who hails from a village in Haiyuan county, Ningxia, in China’s northwest.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 海原
Mandarin: cmn 海原 Hǎiyuán
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Haiyuan 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 1216 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1216/ 1
Anagrams
en aahinuy Hayainu
en 2-syllable words