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Chenghai

Syllables: Cheng·hai

Chenghai proper noun: a district of Shantou, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China.

Proper noun

Chenghai

  1. A district of Shantou, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China.
    • The Chenghai district, in which Swatow is situated, is in fact but a vast alluvial plain formed by the sand and mud brought by the waters of the Han river, the numerous branches of which find their outlet to the sea in that district.1880, Reports on the Trade of the Treaty Ports 1879, Imperial Maritime Customs, →OCLC, page 208
    • China supplies about 70 percent of the world’s toys. Guangdong’s toy exports account for about 75 percent of all such exports and earn the province US$15 billion every year. Almost half of these toys are produced in Chenghai, a scruffy town of 700,000 permanent residents, plus many migrant workers...2013, Rowan Callick, “Doing Business”, in The Party Forever: Inside China's Modern Communist Elite, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 148

Examples of Chenghai in a sentence

  • Almost half of these toys are produced in Chenghai, a scruffy town of 700,000 permanent residents, plus many migrant workers, in the Shantou district.2013, Rowan Callick, “Doing Business”, in The Party Forever: Inside China's Modern Communist Elite, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN...
  • They spoke the Chaozhou (Teochew) dialect and were originally from the Chenghai district of the city of Shantou, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China.2015, J. K. Chua, “Cultivating Gratitude: The Seven Signs from Heaven”, in Pebbles in the Pond: Transforming the World One Person at a...

Forms of Chenghai

alternative formCh'eng-hai
alternative formTenghai

Origin of Chenghai

From Mandarin 澄海 (Chénghǎi).

Words that rhyme with Chenghai

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Questions about Chenghai

What does Chenghai mean?
Chenghai means a district of Shantou, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China.
How do you use Chenghai in a sentence?
Almost half of these toys are produced in Chenghai, a scruffy town of 700,000 permanent residents, plus many migrant workers, in the Shantou district.
What part of speech is Chenghai?
Chenghai is a proper noun.

Words near Chenghai in the dictionary

  1. Chengfei
  2. Chengfeis
  3. Chenggu
  4. chengguan
  5. chengguans
  6. Chenghai
  7. Chengie
  8. Chengjiaqiao
  9. Chengkou
  10. Chenglei
  11. Chengmai

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