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Xiahe

Syllables: Xia·he

Xiahe proper noun: a county of Gannan prefecture, Gansu, China.

Proper noun (1)

Xiahe

  1. A county of Gannan prefecture, Gansu, China.
    • The lamas of Hsiaho County, Kansu Province, welcome the goodwill mission in their famous temple, Labrang Gomba, and hear the government's policy towards national minorities.[1951 January, Kung-liao Sa, “National Minorities Welcome the Goodwill Mission”, in China Pictorial, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16?
    • A new upsurge in farmland development has taken shape in Hsiaho County, Kansu, in the mass movement of learning from Tachai in agriculture.[1970 November 9 [1970 October 29], “Kansu Farmland Extension”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 218, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Lanchow Kansu Provincial...

Proper noun (2)

Xiahe

  1. A village in Qinling, Lintong district, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
    • Participant. My name is Yang Dongyi, and I am from Xiahe village. I grew up in this village. First I was a farmer, and now I rent a little company.1999 [1998 June 26], “Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion With Xiahe Area Residents”, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton 1998, volume I, →OCLC, page 1063
    • President Clinton visited the Terracotta Warriors, the Tang frescoes and the basement of the Shaanxi History Museum. He stayed at the Xi’an Hyatt Hotel. Near the Warriors, he visited Xiahe village with an annual per capita income of Y2601. Its life had been changed by tourism.1999, Ruth Lor Malloy, China Guide: Be a Traveler, Not a Tourist!, 10th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 507

Examples of Xiahe in a sentence

  • Foreign tourists in the southwestern Gansu province town of Labrang, the seat of Xiahe county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, moved through its streets like phantoms.2007, Charlene E. Makley, “Introduction”, in The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China, University...
  • The men were just digging a well in Xiyangzu, Xiahe Village, Lintong District, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province.2003 December 26, Su Wei, “We Found the Terracotta Warriors!”, in Beijing Today, number 135, →ISSN, →OCLC, 焦点 [jiāodiǎn, Focus], page 8...
  • The next day we had the opportunity to walk among the rows of the famous terra-cotta warriors, and to have a roundtable discussion with Chinese citizens in the small village of Xiahe.2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 434:
  • Five kilometers east of the Lintong County seat, in the vicinity of Xiahe Village, is the tomb of Qin Shi Huang.2007, 高洁, editor, 口语六大原则, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 105:

Origin of Xiahe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 夏河 (Xiàhé).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 下和.

Questions about Xiahe

What does Xiahe mean?
Xiahe means a county of Gannan prefecture, Gansu, China.
How do you use Xiahe in a sentence?
Foreign tourists in the southwestern Gansu province town of Labrang, the seat of Xiahe county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, moved through its streets like phantoms.
What part of speech is Xiahe?
Xiahe is a proper noun.

Words near Xiahe in the dictionary

  1. Xi Liao
  2. Xi'an
  3. Xia
  4. xia suay
  5. Xia-Gibbs syndrome
  6. Xiahe
  7. Xiahuayuan
  8. Xialu
  9. Xialuhe
  10. Xiamen
  11. xiamycin

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