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Baishui
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báishuǐ
English
Baishui County
Alternative forms
en Paishui
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn ^白水.
Pronunciation
bīʹshwāʹen 1952 Paishui 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/ 1
en Bai shui
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Weinan province/Shaanxi c/China.
en November 6, 1998 China Food Poisoning Strikes 260 https://web.archive.org/web/20230407103434/https://apnews.com/article/7a32c2f095c42f78973d0d48b6753b81 w:AP News Mourners fell ill Sunday in Baishui, a rural county northwest of the provincial capital, Xi’an. Four remained in serious condition, the report said.
en 2015 Tang Lu Experience: Understanding and Reporting India w:Robin Jeffrey; Ronojoy Sen Media at Work in China and India: Discovering and Dissecting https://archive.org/details/mediaatworkinchi0000unse/ w:SAGE Publishing 978-93-515-0300-2 2015024100 911518762 101 https://archive.org/details/mediaatworkinchi0000unse/page/101/ It was my good fortune around this time also to be selected as vice-governor for a year in Baishui county, recognized as a Chinese National Poverty County, located in Shaanxi province of China.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 白水
Mandarin: cmn 白水 Báishuǐ
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Baishui 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 280 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/280/ 2