Chenghai

English Chenghai District Alternative forms en Ch'eng-hai Wade-Giles en Tenghai Postal Etymology From en cmn - 澄海. Pronunciation chǔngʹhīʹen 1952 Tenghai Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1892 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1892/ 3 Mandarin Ch’eng-hai (chǔngʹ-hīʹ) en aɪ 2 en Cheng hai Proper noun en district prefecture-level city/Shantou p/Guangdong c/China ; former county p/Guangdong c/China. en 1880 Reports on the Trade of the Treaty Ports 1879 https://archive.org/details/reportsontradea00shugoog/ Imperial Maritime Customs 5859328 208 https://archive.org/details/reportsontradea00shugoog/page/n346/ The Chenghai district, in which Swatow is situated, is in fact but a vast alluvial plain formed by the sand and mud brought by the waters of the Han river, the numerous branches of which find their outlet to the sea in that district. en 2013 Rowan Callick Doing Business The Party Forever: Inside China's Modern Communist Elite https://archive.org/details/partyforeverinsi0000call/ w:Palgrave Macmillan 978-1-137-27885-2 2013004222 935009977 148 https://archive.org/details/partyforeverinsi0000call/page/148/ China supplies about 70 percent of the world’s toys. Guangdong’s toy exports account for about 75 percent of all such exports and earn the province US$15 billion every year. Almost half of these toys are produced in Chenghai, a scruffy town of 700,000 permanent residents, plus many migrant workers, in the Shantou district. en 2015 J. K. Chua Cultivating Gratitude: The Seven Signs from Heaven Pebbles in the Pond: Transforming the World One Person at a Time, Wave Four https://archive.org/details/pebblesinpondtra0000klos_m4o1/ 978-0-9862901-2-1 913537222 52 https://archive.org/details/pebblesinpondtra0000klos_m4o1/page/52/ During my grandparents’ generation and the generation before, most of the clansmen were illiterate, but they were deeply religious and followed traditional ways. They spoke the Chaozhou (Teochew) dialect and were originally from the Chenghai district of the city of Shantou, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China. en October 2, 2016 Didi Kirsten Tatlow Fate Catches Up to a Cultural Revolution Museum in China w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20161003071513/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/world/asia/china-cultural-revolution-shantou-museum.html 03 October 2016 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Amid yellow pagodas pointing heavenward, Mr. Peng and a small group of volunteers built memorial arches across the park’s steep roads and paths lined with riotous subtropical vegetation. The site, in the Chenghai district of Shantou, was an appropriate place for memory — Buddhist pagodas are associated with the dead, and many local victims of the Cultural Revolution lie here, many buried in mass graves. en Translations a district and former county of China Chinese: Cantonese: yue 澄海 Mandarin: cmn 澄海 Japanese: ja 澄海 ちょうかい, Chōkai References Further reading en 2008 Chenghai 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 750 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/750/ 3 en 2-syllable words