cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Changge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋ(ˈ)ɡʌ/
enpr: chängʹgŭʹ
Forms: form: Ch'ang-ko
Etymology: From Mandarin 長葛 /长葛 (Chánggě).
Senses: examples: text: In 1958 a production brigade in Changko county, Honan province, improved its soil by deep plowing and greatly increased its grain output. Chairman Mao recommended its experience to the whole country and called on all the communes to do the same.
ref: [1976 August, “Land Improvement in China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 8, Peking: China Welfare Institute, →OCLC, page 29, column 3:
text: In the village of Pohu in Changko county, four children, left alone to play, fell into a well and were drowned. Accidents of this type, however, were not the only cause of infant and child mortality. Disease was the greatest killer.
ref: [1980 [1951 October], Carolyn Teich Adams, Kathryn Teich Winston, “Social Policies for Working Families: A Comparative Inventory”, in Mothers at Work: Public Policies in the United States, Sweden, and China, New York; London: Longman, sourced from "Farm Nursery in Honan," China Monthly Review, 121, no. 4, 207, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30:
text: The bowl and dish (Nos. 82-83) were intended for culinary use. They are two of six vessels unearthed in flawless condition from a cache in Changge County, Henan Province.
ref: 1988, Robert L. Thorp, Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 150:
text: Those convicted were hired by authorities from Changge city in central Henan province to stop petitioners airing their grievances in Beijing, the People’s Daily said on its website, citing a Beijing newspaper.
ref: 2012 December 2, Chen Aizhu, Niu Shuping, “In rare case, Beijing court sentences petitioner interceptors”, in Ben Blanchard, Daniel Magnowski, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2020, World News:
text: “It’s been difficult for companies to resume work and production,” Zhang Yongchao, the office manager of the veteran affairs bureau of Changge, a city an hour from the Foxconn plant, told The Times.
ref: 2022 November 18, Chang Che, John Liu, “An iPhone Factory Needs Workers. The Chinese Government Wants to Help.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2023, Business:
glosses: A county-level city of Xuchang, Henan, China.
Yuzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹjōʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 玉州.
Senses: glosses: A district of Yulin, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Yuzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹjōʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 禹州 (Yǔzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: JU-CHOU is in the province of Honan, in the valley of the Ju River, some fifty miles west of the Ching-Han Railway line and to the southeast of Honan Fu. It is in the same general keramic district as Yü-chou, where the famous Sung Chün wares were made.
ref: [1914, Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries, New York: Japan Society, →OCLC, page 18:
text: The curbs in the city of Yuzhou, in the central province of Henan, are similar to those imposed for nearly two weeks in the industrial hub of Xian, which has become China's latest COVID-19 epicentre.[…]
"So far, the source of the virus is unknown, the number of cases is unclear ... the virus control and prevention situation in our city is very severe," authorities in Xuchang city, which has jurisdiction over Yuzhou, said in a statement on Tuesday.
ref: 2022 January 4, Ryan Woo, Roxanne Liu, Gabriel Crossley, Ella Cao, “China's Xian vows strict implementation of COVID curbs even as cases decline”, in Jacqueline Wong, Michael Perry, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2022, Asia Pacific:
text: China ordered the nearly 1.2 million residents of the city of Yuzhou in Henan Province to stay home after three asymptomatic cases of the virus were discovered in recent days.
ref: 2022 January 4, Austin Ramzy, John Yoon, Karan Singh, “Hong Kong expands its vaccine requirements as it fights to control Omicron.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2022, Global Roundup:
glosses: A county-level city of Xuchang, Henan, China.
Bielbys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bielby
Brophys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brophy
Carpmael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Siniard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Siniards
Etymology: Probably a variant of Senior.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Borski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Borskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Borski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Borskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Borski
Siniards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Siniard
Bessinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bessingers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bessinger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Avans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Avanses
Etymology: Possibly a variant of Evans.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Avanses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Avans
Bessingers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bessinger
Waithe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Waithes
Etymology: From Old Norse vað (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in the East Lindsey district, of Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA202006).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Dengfeng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌŋ.fʌŋ/
ipa: /dɛŋ.fɛŋ/
enpr: dǔngʹfǔngʹ
Forms: form: Teng-feng
form: Têng-fêng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 登封 (Dēngfēng).
Senses: examples: text: On 22 October the dependents of Comrades Tuan Chun-i and (Liu Chieh) rode in a motor vehicle provided by a government organ to tour Tengfeng County.
ref: [1978 December 11 [1978 December 5], “Honan First Secretary Sets Example on 'Special Privilege'”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 238, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking Domestic Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 7:
text: "Dengfeng city has the oldest mountain in China, Mount Song," Mei said. "It is the cradle of Zen in China; it has Shaolin; it has a very profound culture. They wanted to promote it, combining Zen and Shaolin together, to help boost tourism."
ref: 2008 August 31, David Barboza, quoting Mei Shuaiyuan, “In the mountains, another big Chinese extravaganza”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2022:
glosses: A county-level city of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Waithes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Waithe
Xinmi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shǐnʹmēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新密 (Xīnmì).
Senses: examples: text: The participants stressed that they must apply to the building of the regime Mao's Army-building line and Lin's principles and politices, laying stress on building the Army politically. PLA representatives [not named] stationed at the (Hsinmi) mining bureau, Chengchow motor vehicle plant and Chengchow coal-mine machinery factory "have done well in this respect". (Chengchow, Honan provincial service 23.30 GMT 22.11.70)
ref: [1970, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:
text: The poor and lower-middle peasants of the Kuanyintang production brigade of Mihsien county, Homan province, used indigenous methods to produce well over three hundred loudspeakers, and rediffusion reaches every household.
ref: [1978 [1971 September 21], James C. Y. Chu, “People's Republic of China”, in Broadcasting in Asia and the Pacific: A Continental Survey of Radio and Television, Temple University Press, sourced from New China News Agency, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 28–29:
text: The children are dressed in their Sunday best when "Grandma Jane" arrives at the orphanage in rural Xinmi County.[…]
Until 1994 Marcum, now 58, taught high-school biology in Mound City, Kans. Then one day "God told me to move to China," she remembers. A self-described "spiritual Christian," she took early retirement, told her husband and two grown children she'd see them during summer holidays and journeyed to Henan province, where friends introduced her to Xinmi officials
ref: 1998, George Wehrfritz, Lynette Clemetson, “Missionaries Flock to China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2008, Religion:
text: By the end of November 1958, incidences of peasants starving to death were reported in the Mi County of Henan Province.
ref: [2003, Yanlai Wang, “Legacies of Mao Zedong: Constraints and Opportunities”, in China's Economic Development and Democratization, Ashgate, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:
text: Zhang Haichao was twenty-eight when he got pneumoconiosis. He was fit and well before he started working at an abrasive-materials factory in Xinmi, not far from Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, where he comes from. On the job, he inhaled a huge amount of dust every day. In the second half of 2007, he began to cough and felt short of breath.
ref: 2012, Hsiao-Hung Pai, Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants, Verso Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: A county-level city of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Xinzheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shĭnʹjǔngʹ
Forms: form: Hsincheng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新鄭 /新郑 (Xīnzhèng).
Senses: examples: text: Tight and dense motifs occur on bronzes excavated in 1923 from a tomb at Lijialou at Xinzheng Xian in southern Henan attributed to the small state of Zheng. [...]The special interest of the Xinzheng bronzes is their diversity.
ref: 1987, Jessica Rawson, “The Eastern Zhou Period”, in Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual, British Museum Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:
text: Xinzheng City, outside Zhengzhou, has built the Xuanyuan Temple and a museum dedicated to the Yellow Emperor, in honour of the time he spent at Xuanyuan Hill, to which he lent one of his names.
ref: 2015 May 26, Sascha Matuszak, “Cradle of civilisation”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2021:
glosses: A county-level city of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Zhongmu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɔŋ.mu/
enpr: jo͝ongʹmo͞oʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中牟 (Zhōngmù).
Senses: examples: text: Kuantu was in the northeast of the present Chungmou County, Honan Province, and the scene of the battle between the armies of Tsao Tsao and Yuan Shao in A.D. 200.
ref: [1966 [1954], Mao Tse-tung, On Protracted War, 3rd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, published 1967, →OCLC, page 115:
text: Since the National Conference on Learning from Tachai, the organs of Honan Military District and detachments under its direct authority have transferred some 60 cadres, led by principal leaders of the military district, to 4 brigades in Chungmou County to develop the movement of learning from Tachai.
ref: [1976 May 7 [1976 May 6], “Honan Military District Hails 7 May Directive”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 90, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China:, page H 1:
text: Cao Cao’s army, one fifth the size of Yuan Shao’s, resisted the enemy at Guandu (Kuantu, now the northwest of Zhongmu County, Henan Province).
ref: 2004, Charles Xingzhong Li, “Cao Cao”, in Christina A. Salowey, editor, The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 C.E. (Great Lives from History), volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 183:
text: The rival villagers failed to settle their dispute, which quickly grew to involve thousands of people in Zhongmou County, located between the cities of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, according to two accounts of the incident.[…]
One person briefed about the clashes said that authorities may have been particularly alarmed after police stopped a 17-truck convoy carrying Hui men to the area from other counties and provinces as it passed through Qi County, near Zhongmou.
ref: [2004 October 31, Joseph Kahn, “Ethnic Clashes Erupt in China, Leaving 150 Dead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2018, Asia Pacific:
text: A local community health center in the county of Zhongmu in Henan, on Thursday. Such rural facilities are the first line of defense in a triage system to prevent overcrowding of county hospitals, but many are under pressure.
ref: 2023 January 6, David Pierson, Joy Dong, Claire Fu, Olivia Wang, Qilai Shen, “China’s Covid Surge Threatens Villages as Lunar New Year Approaches”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2023:
glosses: A county of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Guancheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gwänʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 管城 (Guǎnchéng).
Senses: examples: text: Dan Ye, who is a committee member of Beida Women's Mosque, is also a member of the Guancheng District Women's Federation in Zhengzhou City.⁶ She took the initiative to report to the Federation the work of the women's mosques, including mediation in neighbourhood and domestic disputes, family planning and legal rights education. Dan Ye appealed to the Guancheng District Women’s Federation to establish a working relationship with the women’s mosques. Despite the praise this report received, Beida Women’s Mosque is still waiting for the Federation to act on its assurances.
ref: 2001, Jingjun (水镜君) Shui, “In Search of Sacred Women's Organizations”, in Ping-Chun Hsiung, Maria Jaschok, Cecilia Milwertz, Red Chan, editors, Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers, Berg, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:
text: With a population of approximately 93.6 million, Henan is the second most populous Chinese province after Guangdong. Although the population is highly homogeneous with 98.8% being Han, Henan has the largest Muslim Hui population in eastern China, which constitute approximately 1% and lives mostly in Muslim enclaves in the Guancheng District (in Zhengzhou), the Chanhe District (in Luoyang) and the Shunhe District (in Kaifeng).
ref: 2013, Rongxing Guo, “Henan”, in Regional China: A Business and Economic Handbook, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 133:
text: Located in Guancheng Hui District, Zhengzhou, the Shang City is the ruins of the early-day capital of the Shang Dynasty.
ref: 2021, Wei Ren, Yan He, “Mount Songshan: The Center of Heaven and Earth”, in Historic Monuments of Mount Songshan, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 30:
glosses: A Hui district in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Jinshui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪnˈʃweɪ/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 金水 (Jīnshuǐ).
Senses: examples: text: In a closed trial on December 24, 2004, the People’s Court of Jinshui District in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan Province, convicted Zhang Ruquan, along with his associate Zhang Zhengyao, in a public prosecution on charges of defamation that “seriously undermined social order or the state interest.” The two were sentenced to three years in prison for defaming former Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
ref: 2005, “Journalists Imprisoned in 2004”, in Bill Sweeney, editor, Attacks on the Press in 2004, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 251, column 2:
text: In the city of Zhengzhou, the vice premier inspected the Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, the Zhengzhou City Center for Disease Control and a community public health service station in the city’s Jinshui District.
ref: 2004, Guomei (夏国美) Xia, HIV/AIDS in China (艾滋病在中国）, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 104:
text: Officers in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, said on Wednesday they received a complaint about an “online celebrity who planned and filmed a car crash video in the street that seriously disturbed the traffic order”.[…]
At about 6pm, Chao entered the intersection of Nongye Nan Lu and Yongping Road in Jinshui district in his blue Lamborghini and pretended to collide with Cao’s electric scooter, the report said.
ref: 2019 August 23, Sue Ng, “Chinese ‘humour blogger’ and his crew detained and fined after police fail to see funny side of car crash stunt”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2019, Society:
text: Li Yongsheng was found Friday afternoon in a garage under the Jincheng International Plaza in Zhengzhou’s Jinshui District, The Paper said. It said he was trapped when the garage flooded Tuesday and lay on a ventilation duct surrounded by floating cars.
ref: 2021 July 24, Dake Kang, “Man in central China survives 3 days in flooded garage”, in AP News, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2021:
text: Documents supplied to human rights activists at the end of September confirmed that the successful Christian school Yabo Academy in the Jinshui district of Zhengzhou, Henan province, has been raided and ordered to cease operations.
Those running it have also been fined 200,000 yuan, or in excess of $27,000, an astronomical sum for the struggling independent Christian community.
The “Advance Notice of Administrative Penalty” issued by the Bureau of Ethnic and Administrative Affairs of the Jinshui district of Zhengzhou city clarifies that the fine has been imposed based on Article 70 of the Religious Affairs Regulation of 2017.
ref: 2023 October 3, Wang Yichi, “Christian School Raided and Shut Down in Henan”, in Bitter Winter, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2023:
glosses: A district of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Erqi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ěrʹchēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 二七 (Èrqī, literally “February Seventh”).
Senses: examples: text: Zheng Jianjun, the man offering the reward, is a self-employed truck driver from Yangduo, a village in the Erqi District of Zhengzhou.[…]
Zhu Guanjun, chief of the political section of Erqi District Branch of Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau told Beijing Today, “To push investigation work by economical tools is a good thing.[…]
In response to the pressure of public opinion, the Erqi District Branch of Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau has formed a special work team to re-investigate Zheng Yanshuan’s case.
ref: 2004 May 21, Chu Meng, “Papers Say 'No' to 200,000 Yuan Reward Ad”, in Beijing Today, number 155, →OCLC, page 1, columns 1, 2, 5:
text: Zhai Zhenfeng, former director of the housing bureau in Erqi District in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan, was found guilty of embezzling 37 million yuan (6 million U.S. dollars) of public funds, according to the Zhenzhou^([sic – meaning Zhengzhou]) Intermediate People's Court.
ref: 2014 December 18, Ben Blanchard, Sui-Lee Wee, “Housing official jailed 25 yrs over corruption”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2014; republished as Clarence Fernandez, Robert Birsel, editors, China police chief who let off drunk son charged with graft, Reuters, 2014 December 18, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2023, Top News:
text: Erqi District of Zhengzhou City is located in the southwest of Zhengzhou City, the capital of Henan Province.[…]
Erqi District has the advantage of location development. It is the commercial and trade center of Zhengzhou City and an important transportation hub. Erqi District has a long history and rich culture.
ref: 2020, Dina Pei, Dongming Bao, “Decision-Making Power and Top-Level Design of Regional Promotion of Basic Education”, in Zhenjun Yao, transl., Constructing a Future Development Model for China’s Basic Education, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: A district of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Zhongyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔŋ.jæn/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔŋ.juˌɑn/
note: hyperforeign
enpr: jo͝ongʹyüǎnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 中原 (Zhōngyuán).
Senses: examples: text: On the night of 19 April, Hou Zongbin, secretary of the Henan Provincial CPC Committee, Zhang Zhigang. member of the Henan Provincial CPC Committee, and leaders of the Henan Provincial Public Security Department and Zhengzhou City went to Zhongyuan District Public Security Bureau, Ludong Village Police Substation, Zhengzhou Railroad Public Security Bureau, Erqi District Public Security Bureau, Dehua Street Police Substation, and some other police substations in Zhengzhou City to inspect work and see police officers and policemen on duty there.
ref: 1990 April 25 [1990 April 20], “Henan's Hou Zongbin Inspects Police Substation”, in Daily Report: China, number 080, sourced from Zhengzhou Henan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59, column 1:
text: As early as 2002, the People's Court of Zhongyuan District in Zhengzhou, He'nan^([sic – meaning Henan]) Province, a court at the basic level, issued Several Provisions on the Application of the Precedent Decisions Mechanism (Guanyu Shixing Xianli Panjue Zhidu de Ruogan Guiding), under which the adjudication committee of the court selected and issued precedent decisions.
ref: 2012, Zhenbao Jin, “From a Supplementary Legislator to a Legitimate Judicial Lawmaker—On the Role of the Supreme People's Court in Developing the Law in Mainland China”, in Lei Chen, C.H. (Remco) van Rhee, editors, Towards a Chinese Civil Code: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:
text: The lockdown in Zhengzhou began early last week when people in more than a dozen neighborhoods in the central Zhongyuan district, west of the Foxconn factory, were told to stay at home, according to an official notice.
ref: 2022 October 27, Chang Che, Amy Chang Chien, “China’s Latest Covid Lockdown Affects a Major iPhone Factory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2022, The Coronavirus Pandemic:
glosses: A district of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Related terms: Central Plain
Zhongyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔŋ.jæn/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔŋ.juˌɑn/
note: hyperforeign
enpr: jo͝ongʹyüǎnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 中元節 /中元节 (Zhōngyuánjié), from 中元 (Zhōngyuán, “central & fundamental”), a name for the 15th day of the 7th month of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar, on which the festival is celebrated.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ghost Festival.
synonyms: word: Ghost Festival
Huiji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 惠濟 /惠济.
Senses: examples: text: While Zhengzhou had no money to improve its appalling deficiencies in transportation, education, and environmental protection, the government of a relatively poor district of the city, Huiji District, spent massive amounts (more than 700 million RMB or $87 million) in 2003-4 to build an office and residential complex that rivals the White House in size and appearance.
ref: 2010, Fei-ling Wang, “Conflict, resistance and the transformation of the hukou system”, in Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Seiden, editors, Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance, 3rd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 86:
text: Last July, the woman from Huiji district in Zhengzhou went to the bank to withdraw money, and the teller accidentally gave her 70,000 yuan instead of the 60,000 yuan she requested.
ref: 2015 March 27, “Around the nation: woman searches for family 30 years after her abduction”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2015, China Insider:
text: The Huiji district government in Zhengzhou said Thursday that it sent in the bulldozer only after the hospital turned a deaf ear to requests that its CT room and morgue must be demolished to make way for the road project.
ref: 2016 January 10, “Chinese official who oversaw hospital demolition fired”, in AP News, archived from the original on 22 May 2022:
text: Although central governmental documents repeatedly emphasize to protect arable land with "the most stringent measures", local governments still have various flexible ways to get what they want.
The most typical case is that, in May 2004, the government of Huiji District of Zhengzhou City moved to the newly completed building in the downtown area.
ref: 2019, Hong Sheng, Qian Pu, Research on Efficiency and Fairness of Resources Allocation by China's Governmental Administration (Series on Chinese Economics Research), volume 16, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 309:
glosses: A district of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Shangjie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 上街 (Shàngjiē).
Senses: examples: text: After 1956, insofar as published accounts are concerned, archaeological work at the Shang sites in Cheng-chou became less intensive though still persistent. The only accounts have dealt with excavations at Shang-chieh 上街 in 1957-59,¹⁵¹ Ming-kung-lu West in 1965,¹⁵² a palace foundation site in 1973 and 1974,¹⁵³ and Chang-chai-nan-chieh 張寨南街 in 1974.¹⁵⁴
ref: [1980, Kwang-chih Chang, “Prolegomena: Five Doors to Shang”, in Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 54:
text: Shangjie District, known as the "capital of aluminum", is situated in the economic golden triangle in the Central Plains. It is 37 km to the west of Zhengzhou City and the first industrial satellite town of Zhengzhou City[…]
ref: 1999, 中国新兴城市: 河南卷, volume 2, 新华出版社 [Xinhua], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:
english: Xinhua
translation: Xinhua
text: On the 18th of November 2003, China Aluminum Company Henan Branch held a foundation ceremony solemnly at Shangjie District of Zhengzhou, called the Aluminium City of China.
ref: 2005, Aluminium, volume 81, numbers 7-12, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 674:
text: A cousin of his was a bank manager in the Shangjie area of Zhengzhou, and in the early 1980s Zhang went there in search of work opportunities.
ref: 2005 [2000], Jinqing Cao, “An economically important town — Chenliu”, in Nicky Harman, Huang Ruhua, transl., China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on rural society [Huang He Biande Zhongguo], RoutledgeCurzon, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 74-75:
english: Huang He Biande Zhongguo
translation: Huang He Biande Zhongguo
glosses: A district of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Vijays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vijay
Vergeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Verges
Gongyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: go͝ongʹēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鞏義 /巩义 (Gǒngyì).
Senses: examples: text: Gongyi City, in central China’s Henan Province, adopted a model housing program which emphasized pooling funds for housing construction. Over the past four years, the city has collected over 88.29 million yuan, including 54.54 million yuan from individuals, and has completed residential construction of over 370,000 square meters.
ref: 1992 April 21 [1992 April 14], “Burden Sharing as Transitional Measure”, in Daily Report: China, number 77, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 1:
text: A 19-year-old man in Gongyi, in Henan Province, entered a room where 21 children were having classes, locked the door, ignited a can of gasoline and set the room on fire, killing at least three 5-year-olds and injuring 14 others, a local official and state news media said. A teacher was also injured.
ref: 2006 May 9, “World Briefing Asia: China: Arson Attack On School Kills 3 Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2023:
text: Gongyi City (Gǒngyì Shì), formerly called Gongxian County, is between Zhèngzhōu and Luòyáng and is home to a fascinating series of Buddhist caves and tombs built by the Northern Song emperors (c AD 517). More than 7700 Buddhist figures populate 256 shrines.
ref: 2015, Damian Harper et al., China (Lonely Planet), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 432:
text: "This is the heaviest rain since I was born, with so many familiar places flooded," said an internet user in the inundated city of Gongyi on Chinese social media.
ref: 2021 July 20, Ryan Woo, “Dozen central Chinese cities under water as river banks burst”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2021:
glosses: A county-level city of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Xiuwu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyōʹwo͞oʹ
Forms: form: Hsiu-wu
form: Hsiuwu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 修武 (Xiūwǔ).
Senses: examples: text: THE ancient art, lost for nearly 1,000 years, of blending clays so that the design is embodied in the porcelain article like a colored pattern into woven cloth, has been revived in its original home, Dangyangyu, Xiuwu county, Henan province.
ref: 1980 July, Tingjun Hou, “Blended Clay Porcelain”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:
text: Near the T'ai-hang Mountains of Honan, T'ang-yang-yu, now the headquarters of a commune brigade in the municipality of Chiao-tso in Hsiu-wu County, was once the site of a thriving pottery centre in the Northern Sung Dynasty.
ref: [1983, Wanda Garnsey, Rewi Alley, “Honan”, in China, Ancient kilns and modern ceramics: A guide to the potteries, Australian National University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 20–21:
text: When women in a Yellow River community of Henan Province fled in advance of a "high tide" last spring, Xiuwu County officials tore off roofs of their houses and knocked down walls with tractors, according to a Chinese medical staffer who witnessed the wrecking.
ref: 1985 January 7, Michael Weisskopf, “ONE COUPLE, ONE CHILD: Second of Three Articles Abortion Policy Tears At China's Society”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2020:
glosses: A county of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
Macun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 馬村 /马村.
Senses: examples: text: The shallow aquifer water in the areas of Macun, Wangfeng, and Hanwang must be intensively treated before utilization due to contamination. Macun and Hanwang, located in central Jiaozuo mining area, must be treatment with advanced green technology before any domestic use.
ref: 2018 March, “Evaluation of hierarchically weighted principal component analysis for water quality management at Jiaozuo mine”, in International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, volume 128, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: This study was conducted at the farmland of Hanwang coal mine (Figure 1), located in Macun district of Jiaozuo city (35°10'-35°21' N, 113°04'-113°26' E), northwestern Henan Province, China.
ref: 2018 June, Xiao-ming Guo, Tong-qian Zhao, Wen-ke Chang, Chun-yan Xiao, Yu-xiao He, “Evaluating the effect of coal mining subsidence on the agricultural soil quality using principal component analysis”, in Chilean Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 78, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2020:
glosses: A district of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
Zahirs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zahir
Prigmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prigmores
Etymology: Probably a variant of Pridmore.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Axintele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Axintele.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Ialomița County, Romania.
Jiefang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 解放 (Jiěfàng).
Senses: examples: text: Head Tian concluded that he is confident about the promising future of Jiefang District in the 21st century.
ref: 1999, “An Interview with Head of Jiefang District of Jiaozuo City”, in 中囯新兴城市: 河南卷 [Zhongguo Xinxing Chengshi: Henan Juan], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 282:
english: Zhongguo Xinxing Chengshi: Henan Juan
translation: Zhongguo Xinxing Chengshi: Henan Juan
text: Participants perform Tai Chi at a square in Jiefang District during a worldwide Tai Chi activity on October 18, 2015, in Jiaozuo, Henan Province.
ref: 2016 March 31, Alan Taylor, “More of the Chinese Art of the Crowd”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2016:
glosses: A district of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
Bo'ai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bǔʹīʹ
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: Boai
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 博愛 /博爱 (Bó'ài).
Senses: examples: text: HONAN COUNTY GRAIN -- Since 1965, Poai County has exceeded every year the grain output target set by the national agricultural development program. Grain and cotton output in 1969 set new records. Spring farming is now in full swing.
ref: [1970, Daily Report People's Republic of China, numbers 42-62, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
text: 28. In February 1939, wealthy leaders in Kaifeng were beaten and executed by the Japanese for refusing payment. The entire business community in Bo'ai county was locked up until they paid their taxes. Li and Jiang 1987: 61.
ref: 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 426:
text: ReTo was awarded contracts covering 4 villages in Bo’ai County, Jiaozuo City, located in Henan province.
ref: 2020 August 27, “ReTo Eco-Solutions Completes Henan Province Sewage Treatment Projects”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2022:
text: A sprinkler irrigates a corn field to mitigate the impact of drought brought by high temperatures, in Xiliangshi village of Boai county in Jiaozuo, Henan province, China June 20, 2022.
ref: [2022 July 5, Albee Zhang, Ella Cao, Ryan Woo, “Heatwaves expected to sweep northern China in next two weeks”, in Gerry Doyle, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2022, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
Curățele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Curățele.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Bihor County, Romania.
Dobroteasa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Dobroteasa.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Olt County, Romania.
Dăneasa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Dăneasa.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Olt County, Romania.
Qinyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沁陽 /沁阳 (Qìnyáng).
Senses: examples: text: A group of eleven inscribed tablets of jade and stone, dating from about the sixth century B.C., is said to have been discovered around 1940 at Ch’in-yang, Honan.
ref: [1962, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, “Engravings on Stone and Jade”, in Written on Bamboo and Silk: the Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, University of Chicago Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:
text: In Chinyang County, compared with 1965 the grain yield per mou this year was up by 49.5 percent and the "contribution to the state" by 54 percent. Winter work now in progress includes building water conservancy projects, afforestation and roadbuilding.
ref: [1970 January 7 [1969 December 30], “Honan Grain Production”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 4, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Central-South Region, page D 6:
text: “I don’t regret what happened. We heard that after we were arrested they improved conditions,” Mr. He, 32, said by telephone from his home in Qinyang city near Jiaozuo, in Henan Province, where he returned to his wife and 5-year-old daughter after receiving a seven week jail term in Singapore.
ref: 2013 April 1, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Back in China, Bus Driver Doesn’t Regret Singapore Strike”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023, View from Asia:
text: In the central province of Henan, the town of Qinyang has almost completely locked down its nearly 700,000 residents from Sunday, with one person from each household allowed out every two days to get groceries.
ref: 2022 July 11, By Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “Shanghai braces for more mass COVID testing amid fresh curbs across China”, in Marius Zaharia, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2022, China:
glosses: A county-level city of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
Mengzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌmʌŋˈd͡ʒoʊ/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孟州 (Mèngzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Jiaozuo, for instance, brought forth the proposal "to inaugurate and promote educational modernization across the board," and in the counties with which it is affiliated—such as Mengzhou and Qinyang, the "Three New Classrooms"—in micro-mechanics, electronic teaching and phonetics—are rapidly moving ahead, keeping abreast of the "Three Old Classrooms" of the library, the[...]
ref: 1998, Chinese Education and Society, volume 31, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:
text: In the period around 1925, the Wen County police department found itself unable to meet the threat posed by large gangs of armed bandits (insurrectionists, really) operating in Henan Province. One such gang, the Red Spear Society, was already in control of neighboring Bo'ai County 博愛縣 and Mengzhou City 孟洲市^([sic – meaning 孟州市]) (Jiaozuo 焦作, Henan).
ref: 2019, Mark Chen, Chen Style Taijiquan Collected Masterworks: The History of a Martial Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=C8N_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PP10:
text: The government of Mengzhou, which oversees Sangpo, declined to comment when reached by phone. But Mengzhou’s mayor said last year that the crackdown was necessary and in accordance with the popular will, according to a statement on the Mengzhou government website.
ref: 2019 May 23, David Stanway, Philip Wen, Stella Qiu, “A pollution crackdown compounds slowdown woes in China's heartland”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2023:
glosses: A county-level city of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
Jiyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chiyuan
form: Chi-yüan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 濟源／济源 (Jǐyuán).
Senses: examples: text: The River Ch'in, he explains, rises in Shansi and after entering Honan at Chi-yüan continues its course through the two districts of Ho-nei and Wuchih until it joins the Tatan River and eventually empties itself into the Yellow River.
ref: [1891 January 2 [1890 November 29], “River Administration in Honan”, in North-China Herald, volume XLVI, number 1222, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 11, column 2:
text: Since the 1970s, models of pottery winnowing-machines have been unearthed continually in Jiyuan and Luoyang, at the Henan province and in Ruicheng, at the Shanxi province. Among them, a winnowing-machine model unearthed in Sijiangou, Jiyuan could be traced back to the period of the Western Han (Fig. 23) [13].
ref: 2009, F. Lisheng, T. Qingjun, “Crank-Connecting Rod Mechanism”, in International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 247:
text: Three lead smelters in Jiyuan city in Henan, China’s top lead producing province, phased out 150,000 tonnes a year of capacity in the first half of the year on environment issues, sources at two of the smelters said on Wednesday.
ref: 2010 June 30, Polly Yam, “Three lead smelters in China Jiyuan phase out capacity -sources”, in Ed Lane, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2023, MINING & METALS - SPECIALTY:
glosses: A sub-prefectural city of Henan, China.
Vanosdol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vanosdols
Etymology: Altered form of Dutch van Oostdal.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Sălătrucel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Sălătrucel.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Vâlcea County, Romania.
Verguleasa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Verguleasa.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Olt County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Verguleasa, Olt County, Romania.
Vrba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vrbas
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Vrba.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Derived terms: vrbaite
Jili
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吉利 (Jílì).
Senses: examples: text: In March this year when production of the factory was in full swing, four procuratorial personnel of Jili District took away account books of a service company at the factory’s dormitory in Xigong District of Luoyang City. Four days later the procuratorate sealed two safes belonging to the company, forcing the company to stop doing business.
ref: 1988 June 29 [1988 June 20], Chen Chaozhong (7115 2600 0022) [陳朝中], “District Party Committee Secretary Causes Production at a Chemical Works To Be Partly Stopped Because He Fails To Extort What He Wants”, in Daily Report: China, number 88-125, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing RENMIN RIBAO, p1, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, National Affairs, page 25, column 2:
english: 陳朝中
translation: 陳朝中
text: These businesses, usually small and weak, were often forced by corrupt officials to engage in bribery in order to stay in business. For example, as revealed by the People's Daily (June 22, 1988), Gao Yuncong, secretary of Jili District Party Committee of Luoyang City, Hunan, forced the Jili Chemical Factory to buy houses, cars, and color TV sets for him.
ref: 1994, Ting Gong, The Politics of Corruption in Contemporary China: An Analysis of Policy Outcomes, Praeger, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:
text: In the freer political atmosphere before the 1989 repression, peasant protests against the Party in Henan were sometimes openly discussed. A transcript of a meeting between peasants and cadres in Jili district near Luoyang published in the Peasants’ Daily recorded some vivid complaints.
ref: 1996, John Gittings, “Peasants in Revolt”, in Real China: From Cannibalism to Karaoke, Pocket Books, published 1997, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:
text: (7) Wetland eco-geological environment system: This system is mainly distributed along two banks of the Yellow River in Jili District, Luoyang, with an area is 15.72 km², 0.1% of the total area.
ref: 2019, L. Yang et al., “The Regionalization of Eco-Geological Environment System”, in Geo-informatics in Sustainable Ecosystem and Society, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 199:
glosses: A district of Luoyang, Henan, China.
Vanosdols
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vanosdol
Poynings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ2612).
Yahnke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yahnkes
Etymology: Variant of Jahnke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Mengjin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孟津 (Mèngjīn).
Senses: examples: text: He began the trek from Luoyang train station to his hometown in Mengjin county, central Henan province, on Thursday morning after arriving by train from Shanghai.
ref: 2018 January 26, Laura Zhou, “‘I’ll save the cash to buy clothes for my wife’: Chinese migrant worker’s 40km trek home”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2018, Society:
text: Almost all the households of Mengjin County weaved the cloth, and the merchants of Shaanxi Province participated in it and put the product on the market.
ref: 2019, Feizhou Zhou, Institutional Change and Rural Industrialization in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:
glosses: A district of Luoyang, Henan, China, formerly a county.
Yaldo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yaldos
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Yaldos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yaldo
Chanhe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃænˈhʌ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑn-/
ipa: /-hi/
enpr: chänʹhŭʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 瀍河 (Chánhé).
Senses: examples: text: Police and firefighters rushed to the scene but were prevented by thick smoke from entering the dance hall. Some of the trapped victims jumped from the building onto air mats put out by the rescuers. Most of the 309 dead came from urban Laocheng, Chanhe, and Xigong districts of Luoyang: they were suffocated by the fumes.
ref: 2005, Sandra Forty, “Luoyang Fire, China, 2000”, in Disasters, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 190:
text: […]Chanhe District, Luoyang City, the guild hall started to be built in the 9th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign (1744 AD) in the Qing Dynasty, with the donations made by merchants from Luding Prefecture (present-day Changzhi) and[…]
ref: 2007, 河南文化遗产: 全国重点文物保护单位, 文物出版社, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: Although the population is highly homogeneous with 98.8% being Han, Henan has the largest Muslim Hui population in eastern China, which constitute approximately 1% and lives mostly in Muslim enclaves in the Guancheng District (in Zhengzhou), the Chanhe District (in Luoyang) and the Shunhe District (in Kaifeng).
ref: 2013, Rongxing Guo, “Henan”, in Regional China: A Business and Economic Handbook, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 133:
text: Allegedly, Yue confessed that he himself went to a Luoyang local scoundrel named Ma Tulong (also nicknamed Ma Longzi) in Dongguan in today's Chanhe district of Luoyang and asked Ma to have the work done at the price of 5,000 Chinese yuan.
ref: 2020, Dong Wang, “Blighted Beauty: Longmen and Cultural Heritage Law in Early Twentieth-Century China”, in Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:
glosses: A Hui district in Luoyang, Henan, China.
Yahnkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yahnke
Laocheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 老城 (lǎochéng).
Senses: examples: text: On October 20, Zhang Jinxing, a journalist for Cheng Du Shang Bao newspaper, was reportedly assaulted and detained for eight hours by police from Laocheng District, Luoyang, Henan Province, while reporting on a traffic accident.
ref: 2010, Serenade Woo, edited by Deborah Muir and Anna Noonan, China Clings to Control: Press Freedom in 2009, International Federation of Journalists, →OCLC, page 15:
text: A court in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, began hearing a case where 266 households in the city sued their local government over land requisition and violation of regulations on protection of the old town.
The 266 families claimed that the Laocheng (old town) district government began a policy of requisition of land in the ancient town on August 8 last year, ordering the seizure of more than 1,000 mu (66.7 hectares) in a move that contradicts the city's 2011-2020 overall plan and the country's regulation on ancient town protection.
ref: 2014 March 28, “Luoyang residents sue gov't over land requisition”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 15 May 2022:
glosses: A district of Luoyang, Henan, China.