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Ch'ing-hai

Ch'ing-hai is the alternative form of Qinghai.

Meaning of Qinghai

Proper noun

Qinghai

  1. A province in northwestern China. Capital: Xining.
    • In Qinghai (Chinghai) Province, 300 schools in six xian surrounding the provincial capital, Xi’ning^([sic – meaning Xining]) (Sining), had 10,000 students in 1964. Part-work schools in the province enabled 8 per cent of the age-group to attend school, including some go per cent of those children...1970, R. F. Price, “Part-time schools and classes”, in Brian Holmes, editor, Education in Communist China (World education series), New York; Washington: Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 215
  2. A large lake in Qinghai province, the largest in China.

Origin of Ch'ing-hai

From Mandarin 青海 /靑海 (Qīnghǎi) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-hai³.

Questions about Ch'ing-hai

What is Ch'ing-hai the alternative form of?
Ch'ing-hai is the alternative form of Qinghai.

Words near Ch'ing-hai in the dictionary

  1. Ch'in-chou
  2. Ch'in-huang-tao
  3. Ch'ing
  4. Ch'ing Ming
  5. Ch'ing-chiang-p'u
  6. Ch'ing-hai
  7. Ch'ing-ho
  8. Ch'ing-ming
  9. Ch'ing-tao
  10. Ch'iung-hai
  11. Ch'ng

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ch'ing-hai (page history and authors); Qinghai (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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