Baihe

See also: bǎihé

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 白河 (Báihé).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪ.hi/, /baɪ.hə/

Proper noun

Baihe

1. A county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1991, Pingwa Jia, “Touch Paper”, in The Time is Not Yet Ripe‎^[1], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 117:

     Another time, some youths in the village had gone down the Han River to Gourd Town, Baihe County and on to the city of Xiangyang, and come back with trousers that were tight at the waist and wide at the bottom, which made them seem instantly taller.

   • 2004, William C. Heffernan, John Kleinig, editors, Private and Public Corruption‎^[2], Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 265:

     Between March 4 and April 11 of 1997, 98 migrant workers from Baihe County in Shanxi Province were killed in three different coal mining accidents. According to Baihe County government figures , up to 22,000 rural residents have left home each year for work in the years since 1994.

   • 2017 April 17, “8 missing in NW China landslide”, in ZD, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[3], archived from the original on 10 January 2020‎^[4]:

     A seven-story residential building collapsed in the landslide, which occurred at 11:58 a.m. in Maoping Township, Baihe County in the city of Ankang, according to the county's publicity department.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白河 (zh) (Báihé)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Baihe”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 278, column 2