Zhuhai
See also: Zhūhǎi
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 珠海 (Zhūhǎi).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃuˈhaɪ/
- (hyperforeign) enPR: jo͞oʹhīʹ
Proper noun
Zhuhai
- A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southeastern China.
- 2002, Margaret Thatcher, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World[1], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166:
- In 1992, at the age of eighty-eight, Deng visited the Shenzhen and Zhuhai Special Economic Zones in order to defend his policies against Party critics.
- 2023 September 2, “Super typhoon Saola leaves trail of destruction in southern China”, in EFE[2], sourced from Hong Kong (EFE), archived from the original on 5 December 2023[3]:
- Super typhoon Saola made landfall in southeast China’s Guangdong province early Saturday, leaving a trail of destruction and flooding in Shenzhen city and the neighboring Hong Kong and Macao.
The typhoon made landfall around 3:30 am south of the city of Zhuhai, located along the coast of Guangdong, the National Meteorological Center said.
Translations
a city of China
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhuhai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3566, column 1: “Sometimes spelled Chu-hai.”