Tongbai

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 桐柏 (Tóngbǎi).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: to͝ongʹbīʹ[1]

Proper noun

Tongbai

  1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
    • [1978 August 1 [1978 March], “Plant Fossils of Late Eocene From Wu-ch'eng, Honan and Their Significance in Botany and Paleoclimatology”, in People's Republic of China Scientific Abstracts‎[2], number 195, →OCLC, page 23:
      This paper records some plant impressions from the Wu-li-tui formation of the Wu-ch'eng basin in T'ung-pai hsien, Honan. The xerophytic Palibinia and small leaves of various kinds of leguminous plants are predominant.]
    • [1979, International Minerals/Metals Review‎[3], McGraw-Hill, →OCLC, page 19:
      A large deposit of high-grade natural soda reportedly has been found in Tungpai County of Honan Province, within the Paleogene system of Cenozoic rocks.]
    • 2013 August, Eileen De Guire, “State of raw materials 2013”, in American Ceramic Society Bulletin‎[4], volume 92, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28:
      China recently announced discovery of a large trona deposit in Tongbai County, ranking it the largest trona deposit in Asia and second only to the Wyoming deposit.
    • 2022 August 23, Emily Chow, “China's Henan province ups gold resource at Laowan mine”, in Richard Pullin, editor, Reuters‎[5], archived from the original on 14 July 2023, COMMODITIES‎[6]:
      The Laowan mine in Tongbai county produced 208 tonnes of gold between 2011 and 2019, the bureau said.
      Henan is China’s second-largest gold producing province after northeastern Shandong province.
    • 2023 August 26, Jack Lau, “Be alert: China enlists the public in push back at US spying efforts”, in South China Morning Post‎[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 August 2023, Politics‎[8]:
      Another Douyin video, uploaded by the police department of Tongbai county in Henan province, showed a policewoman trying to identify spies by quizzing pedestrians about lines from sketch shows that only Chinese people – but not foreigners – would know.

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  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tungpeh or T’ung-pai”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1960, column 3

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