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Xinghai

Syllables: Xing·hai

Xinghai proper noun: a county of Hainan, Qinghai, China.

Proper noun

Xinghai

  1. A county of Hainan, Qinghai, China.
    • In Xinghai County, two young men were forced to flee to India last year when the police sought to arrest them for distributing 100 pro-independence leaflets, villagers said.1991 September 9, Nicholas D. Kristof, “In Corner of Tibet, Chinese Now Predominate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015, Section A, page 1

Origin of Xinghai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興海 /兴海 (Xìnghǎi).

Questions about Xinghai

What does Xinghai mean?
Xinghai means a county of Hainan, Qinghai, China.
What part of speech is Xinghai?
Xinghai is a proper noun.

Words near Xinghai in the dictionary

  1. xing
  2. Xing out
  3. Xing'an
  4. Xingcheng
  5. Xingguo
  6. Xinghai
  7. Xinghua
  8. Xinghualing
  9. Xingjiang
  10. Xingkai
  11. Xingping

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