Mingshui

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 明水 (Míngshuǐ).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mǐngʹshwāʹ[1]

Proper noun

Mingshui

  1. A county of Suihua, Heilongjiang, China.
    • 2021 April 30, Zhuang Pinghui, “Outrage over light sentence for man in China who violently abused wife and forced her to sleep in pigsty”, in South China Morning Post‎[2], sourced from Beijing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 April 2021, People & Culture‎[3]:
      A man in Heilongjiang province in northeast China who abused his wife for three years, often forcing her to work or sleep in a pigpen and eat garbage, had the appeal for his 18-month prison sentence rejected in a case that caused fury about the perceived light sentence. […]
      The wife, 30, identified only by the family name Yu, married Wu, 39, in 2017 in Mingshui county and he started abusing her shortly after, a court document showed.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Mingshui”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1208, column 2
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