Haiyan

English

Etymology

From the Mandarin 海晏 (Hǎiyàn).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hīʹyěnʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Hai‧yan

Proper noun

Haiyan

  1. A county of Haibei, Qinghai, China.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Haiyen”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 746, column 2: “Until 1943 called Sankiocheng.”
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