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Harbin

Harbin proper noun: a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, in northeastern China.

Proper noun

Harbin

  1. A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, in northeastern China.
    • The headquarters of the Chinese-Eastern road is at Harbin, a town situated at about the centre of northern China, and there located for the purpose of administering the affairs of the railway.1899 July 29, H. E. Rood, “American Locomotives in Siberia”, in Harper's Weekly, volume XLIII, number 2223, page 749
    • Manchuria is crossed by the Chinese Eastern Railway (the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway), which enters the Hei-lung-chiang Province from the north-west and divides at Harbin (哈爾賓^([sic – meaning 哈爾濱])) in the Chi-lin Province, one branch going to Vladivostock (海参威) and the other to Dalny and Port...1904, Charles Daniel Tenney, Geography of Asia, Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 23

Harbin meaning in Hindi, Arabic, Thai and Vietnamese

Harbin in Hindi

a sub-provincial city in northeastern China
हारबिन hārbin

Harbin in Arabic

a sub-provincial city in northeastern China
هَارْبِين harbīn, خَارْبِين ḵarbīn

Harbin in Thai

a sub-provincial city in northeastern China
ฮาร์บิน

Harbin in Vietnamese

a sub-provincial city in northeastern China
Cáp Nhĩ Tân

Examples of Harbin in a sentence

  • The Russians of Manchuria, who had built Harbin forty-five years ago, were now invited to clear the stage and to do it quickly.1942, Nina Fedorova, The Children, Little, Brown and Company, page 79:
  • Temperatures in Yakeshi in Inner Mongolia (內蒙古) dropped to minus 28 degrees Celsius yesterday, while Harbin (哈爾濱) in Heilongjiang (黑龍江) province experienced minus 19 degrees.2016 January 21, Alice Yan, Lai Ying Kit, Mimi Lau, “Incredible scenes as mainland shoppers strip supermarket shelves ahead of big chill”...

Synonyms of Harbin

Origin of Harbin

From Manchu ᡥᠠᡵᠪᡳᠨ (harbin)- in the late 19th century, the area was a fishing village.

Words formed from Harbin

Questions about Harbin

What does Harbin mean?
Harbin means a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, in northeastern China.
What is Harbin in Hindi?
Harbin in Hindi is हारबिन (hārbin). See Harbin meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Harbin in a sentence?
The Russians of Manchuria, who had built Harbin forty-five years ago, were now invited to clear the stage and to do it quickly.
What part of speech is Harbin?
Harbin is a proper noun.

Words near Harbin in the dictionary

  1. Harbert
  2. Harberts
  3. Harbeson
  4. Harbesons
  5. harbi
  6. Harbin
  7. harbinge
  8. harbinged
  9. harbinger
  10. harbinger-of-spring
  11. harbingered

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