Haiyan

English

Etymology

From the Mandarin 海晏 (Hǎiyàn).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hīʹyěnʹ[1]

Proper noun

Haiyan

  1. A county of Haibei, Qinghai, China.
    • 2010 April 13, “Nuclear landscapes”, in Reuters‎[2], archived from the original on 19 May 2024, page 20/21:
      A visitor stands on a blast wall at the site of China's first nuclear weapons base in Haiyan county, Qinghai province April 13, 2010. China declassified its first nuclear weapons base in 2007 and has been inviting tourists to visit the site located in a remote part of the northwestern province of Qinghai, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Haiyen”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 746, column 2: “Until 1943 called Sankiocheng.”
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