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Chinghai

Chinghai is the obsolete spelling 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.

Questions about Chinghai

What is Chinghai the obsolete spelling of?
Chinghai is the obsolete spelling of Qinghai.

Words near Chinghai in the dictionary

  1. Chinggis
  2. Chinggis Khaan
  3. Chinggis Khan
  4. Chinggisid
  5. Chinggisids
  6. Chinghai
  7. Chinghis
  8. Chinghis Khan
  9. Chinghiz
  10. Chinghiz Khan
  11. chinging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chinghai (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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