Baihe

See also: bǎihé and baihe

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪ.hi/, /baɪ.hə/
• enPR: bīʹhŭʹ
• Hyphenation: Bai‧he

Proper noun

Baihe

1. A county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China.
   • [(Can we date this quote?), Hsian, Past and Present‎^[2], sourced from North-China Daily News, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:

     There is a navigable tributary of the Han, the Chiaho (甲河) which joins it at Paihohsien (白河縣) where the Shensi customs barrier for the Han is situated, considerably west of Laohokʻou.]

   • 1991, Pingwa Jia, “Touch Paper”, in The Time is Not Yet Ripe‎^[3], 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^[4], 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.

2. A district of Tainan, Taiwan.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 白河 (baak⁶ ho⁴)

  Mandarin: 白河 (zh) (Báihé)

• Japanese: 白河 (ja) (Hakuga)
• Korean: 바이허 (Baiheo)

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