Huangmei

See also: Huang-mei

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Mandarin 黃梅 / 黄梅 (Huángméi).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hwängʹmāʹ[1]

Proper noun

Huangmei

  1. A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
    • [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China[2], London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14:
      Hoangcheu commands over nine Cities, as Hoangcheu, Lotien, Maching, Hoangpi, Hoanggan, Kixui, Ki, Hoangmui, Hoangci.]
    • 1918, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China[3], University of Birmingham, →OCLC, page 305:
      As observed in the Huangmei district in south-eastern Hupeh, the Rhaetic sandstones and shales with their characteristic purple colour directly overlie the Lower Permian limestone and Silurian shale.
    • 2011, Connie A. Shemo, “"To Stand for the Best of Everything": Shi Meiyu, 1914-1920”, in The Chinese Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1872-1937: On a Cross-Cultural Frontier of Gender, Race, and Nation[4] (History; Medical), Lehigh University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158:
      [] sending the more serious cases to Danforth in Jiujiang.⁶⁹ In her 1917 annual report, Shi wrote that her nurses had set up dispensaries in the interior cities of Huangmei (Hwangmei) and Taihu (Tai Hu).
    • 2020 March 28, Sidney Leng, “Coronavirus: police, public clash as border reopens between Hubei and Jiangxi provinces”, in South China Morning Post[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 March 2020, Society‎[6]:
      According to local government reports, the incident happened on the 1st Yangtze River Bridge that separates Huangmei county in Hubei – the province at the epicentre of the initial coronavirus outbreak – with the city of Jiujiang in Jiangxi.
  2. A town in Huangmei, Huanggang, Hubei, China.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hwangmei or Huang-mei”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 819, column 2

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