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Hegang

Syllables: He·gang

Hegang proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.

Proper noun

Hegang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.
    • The inmates who had survived until the collapse of the "Manchukuo" regime were now telling the People's Government with bitterness and hatred about what the puppet rulers had done to them. A peasant of Hokang city was arrested in 1944 and taken to the police headquarters on a charge of...[1964, Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, “From Fear to Recognizing my Guilt”, in W. J. F. Jenner, transl., From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, Second edition, volume 2, Peking: Foreign...
    • The principal coal centers are Kisi, northeast of Mutankiang, and Hokang and Shwangyashan, in the Kiamusze area, all producing coal of coking quality. Hokang, the most important coal field, has 5 billion tons of Jurassic coal, part of which is accessible to strip-mining operations. Development of...[1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 271

Examples of Hegang in a sentence

  • The explosion took place at the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang City, in Heilongjiang province, according to the official Xinhua news agency.2009 November 21, Keith Bradsher, “At Least 92 Die in Chinese Mine Explosion”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York...
  • Zou, from Hegang, a city in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, paid an unspecified sum for the TOEFL and $2,000 for the SAT, Kitchen told a judge in U.S.2015 October 29, Joe Mandak, “Chinese woman pleads guilty in college test-taking scheme”, in AP News, sourced from PITTSBURGH (AP)...

Origin of Hegang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鶴崗 /鹤岗 (Hègǎng).

Questions about Hegang

What does Hegang mean?
Hegang means a prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.
How do you use Hegang in a sentence?
The explosion took place at the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang City, in Heilongjiang province, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
What part of speech is Hegang?
Hegang is a proper noun.

Words near Hegang in the dictionary

  1. hefts
  2. hefty
  3. Heftys
  4. hefutoxin
  5. hefutoxins
  6. Hegang
  7. hegari
  8. hegaris
  9. Hegarty
  10. Hegartys
  11. Hegazy

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