Baishui

See also: báishuǐ

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 白水 (Báishuǐ).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bīʹshwāʹ[1]

Proper noun

Baishui

  1. A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
    • 1998 November 6, “China Food Poisoning Strikes 260”, in AP News‎[2], archived from the original on 7 April 2023‎[3]:
      Mourners fell ill Sunday in Baishui, a rural county northwest of the provincial capital, Xi’an. Four remained in serious condition, the report said.
    • 2015, Tang Lu, “Experience: Understanding and Reporting India”, in Robin Jeffrey, Ronojoy Sen, editors, Media at Work in China and India: Discovering and Dissecting‎[4], SAGE Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Paishui”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1412, column 1

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