Pukwei

Proper noun

Pukwei

1. Synonym of Qiqihar: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • In the western range, and about sixiy miles from the Argun River, rises the Nonni, the most important waterway flowing through the province. On its way to the Sungari, which it joins at Shui-shih-ying-tzu, twenty miles to the north of the town of Petuna (Hsin Ch'eng), it passes on its left bank the...[1904, Alexander Hosie, Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 148
   • North: Heilungkiang, 140,000 square miles. Population, 2,000,000. Capital, Tsitsihar, or, in Chinese, Pukwei; chief mart, Aigun, on the Amur, forty miles below Blagoveschensk (destroyed by the Russians in 1900).1905, Archibald Little, “The Dependencies: Part I. Manchuria”, in The Far East, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 158

   Synonyms:

   Qiqihar