Sanhe

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Pronunciation

  • enPR: sän′hŭ′[1]
  • Hyphenation: San‧he

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 三河 (Sānhé).

Proper noun

Sanhe

  1. A county-level city of Langfang, Hebei, China.
    • [1904, Arthur Judson Brown, “Comity and Cooperation”, in New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening[2], 2nd edition, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 293:
      In the country, the counties of San-ho, Huai-jou, Pao-ti, to the north and east of Peking, are also understood to be distinctively Presbyterian ground. San-ho County alone is said to have 1,200 towns and villages, while the other counties are also very populous.]
    • 2013 February 28, Andrew Jacobs, “China: German Journalists Say They Were Assaulted for Filming”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 March 2013, Asia Pacific‎[4]:
      The German crew, working for the broadcaster ARD, said the episode took place in Sanhe, a city in Hebei Province, roughly 30 miles east of Beijing.
    • 2021 January 12, Jing Wang, Andrew Galbraith, Se Young Lee, “Another Chinese city goes into lockdown amid new COVID-19 threat”, in Kim Coghill, editor, Reuters[5], archived from the original on 17 May 2021, China‎[6]:
      Two counties under Langfang's jurisdiction that border Beijing - Guan and Sanhe - had already announced home quarantine measures. Guan reported one new COVID-19 case but Sanhe did not say whether any of its residents were diagnosed with the disease.
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Etymology 2

From Mandarin 三合 (Sānhé).

Proper noun

Sanhe

  1. A town in Yingcheng, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
  2. A village in Sanhe, Yingcheng, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
  3. A village in Dongjin, Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Sanho”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1671, column 1

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