# Pakhoi
## English
### Alternative forms

* Pak Hoi, Pak-hoi

### Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Cantonese 北海 (bak$^1$ hoi$^2$).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: bäkʹhoiʹ

### Proper noun

Pakhoi
* (dated) Synonym of Beihai: the Cantonese-derived name.
** 1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882‎, London: Luzac & Company, page 242:Junks from Pakhoi, Hoihow and Tinpak, in the south-west, commenced in 1846 a prosperous trade with Hongkong.
** 1905, B. L. Putnam Weale, The Re-shaping of The Far East‎, volume II, The Macmillan Company, page 308:But this is not all. It will be remembered that from Hanoi, the capital of Tonkin, a second line has been spoken of as leaving for Chinese territory — the Hanoi-Langson-Lungchow Railway. This strategic railway is already in fair way of being entirely completed, and the extension to Nanningfu, Pakhoi, and the leased port and territory of Kwangchow-wan will shortly be taken in hand.
** 1939, R. Ellis Roberts, Portrait of Stella Benson‎, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, →OL, page 284:Since Shaemas couldn’t leave the service of the Customs and come to live in England, she would, since she could, go to join him in his new post Hoi-how in China; and thence they were to move to the last post, Pakhoi.
** 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 166:With the exception of Shiukwan on the Canton-Hankow railroad, Kwangtung’s regional centers are situated along the coast, notably in the Canton delta. There, in addition to Canton, are the cities of Fatshan, Kongmoon and Shekki. The metropolis of western Kwangtung is Tsamkong, and Pakhoi is the chief town of the western panhandle.
** 1974, Diana Lary, Region and Nation: The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics, 1925-1937‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 198:The Japanese pleasure at China’s obvious disunity created pressure for a settlement, which was enhanced by their reaction to an incident at Pakhoi, in southwestern Kwangtung. The only Japanese in that city, a medicine dealer, was murdered by troops of the Nineteenth Route Army; in retaliation, Japanese gunboats moved into Pakhoi harbour, and for a while seemed about to use the Incident as a pretext for aggression in that area.

### References

* ↑ Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese).‎, Second edition, Shanghai: Far Eastern Geographical Establishment, 1915 March, →OCLC, page 59: “The romanisation adopted is […] that used by the Chinese Post Office. […] Pakhoi 北海 Kwangtung 廣東 21.28N 109.4 E”
* ↑ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 359:Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Pakhoi (Peihai, Beihai)
* ↑ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pakhoi”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1412, column 3