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Huai-pei

Huai-pei is the alternative form of Huaibei.

Meaning of Huaibei

Proper noun

Huaibei

  1. A prefecture-level city in northern Anhui, China.
    • The Yangtse and Huai Rivers cut through Anhwei, dividing it into three areas from north to south — Huaipei, Huainan and Wannan.
      The greater part of Huaipei, the area north of the Huai, consists of plain less than 50 metres above sea level. In the past it was almost all dry land, growing mainly...[1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, “The Middle and Lower Yellow River Region”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 122

Origin of Huai-pei

From Mandarin 淮北 (Huáiběi), Wade–Giles romanization: Huai²-pei³.

Questions about Huai-pei

What is Huai-pei the alternative form of?
Huai-pei is the alternative form of Huaibei.

Words near Huai-pei in the dictionary

  1. Huai
  2. Huai River
  3. Huai'an
  4. Huai-an
  5. Huai-nan
  6. Huai-pei
  7. Huaibei
  8. Huaibin
  9. Huaide
  10. Huaihua
  11. Huainan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Huai-pei (page history and authors); Huaibei (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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