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qingzhen

Syllables: qing·zhen

qingzhen proper noun: synonym of halal: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name; permissible according to Muslim religious customs, especially of food preparation.

Proper noun (1)

qingzhen

  1. Synonym of halal: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name; permissible according to Muslim religious customs, especially of food preparation
    • The third key was the number of demands from different patrons or groups for their own specialized cuisines. Such patrons included the court, rich households, and scholar-gourmands. Buddhists and Muslims also elaborated their own cuisines (sucai 素菜 and qingzhen 清真).2000, Endymion Wilkinson, “Agriculture, Food, and the Environment”, in Chinese History: A New Manual, Rev. & enl. edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 636
    • A qingzhen label on food for sale or a qingzhen sign in a restaurant instantly conveyed to customers that they were getting a Hui product, not a Han one. Because qingzhen was so basic to Hui entrepreneurship, the city and provincial governments promoted its use as a marker of Hui “nationality...2000, Maris Boyd Gillette, “Traditional Food and Race”, in Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN...
    Synonyms:
    halal

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Qingzhen

Qingzhen

  1. A county-level city of Guiyang, Guizhou, China.

Examples of qingzhen in a sentence

  • A qingzhen label on food for sale or a qingzhen sign in a restaurant instantly conveyed to customers that they were getting a Hui product, not a Han one.2000, Maris Boyd Gillette, “Traditional Food and Race”, in Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese...
  • Since the taboos are strictly enforced, in towns and cities, the Hui people have their own qingzhen restaurants, so they would not have to dine with other non-Muslim people.2004 October, 刘军茹 [Liu Junru], “Dining with the Minorities”, in William W. Wang, transl., Chinese Foods (Cultural China Series), China...

Synonyms of qingzhen

Origin of qingzhen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清真 (qīngzhēn).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清鎮 /清镇 (Qīngzhèn).

Questions about qingzhen

What does qingzhen mean?
Qingzhen means synonym of halal: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name; permissible according to Muslim religious customs, especially of food preparation.
How do you use qingzhen in a sentence?
A qingzhen label on food for sale or a qingzhen sign in a restaurant instantly conveyed to customers that they were getting a Hui product, not a Han one.
What part of speech is qingzhen?
Qingzhen is a proper noun.

Words near qingzhen in the dictionary

  1. Qingxu
  2. Qingyang
  3. qingyangshengenin
  4. Qingyuan
  5. Qingyunpu
  6. qingzhen
  7. Qinhuangdao
  8. Qinling Mountains
  9. Qinnan
  10. qinot
  11. qinoth

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