Ha'erbin

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See also: Haerbin and Hā'ěrbīn

English

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 哈爾濱 / 哈尔滨 (Hā'ěrbīn).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: häʹěrʹbǐnʹ
  • enPR: härʹbǐnʹ

Proper noun

Ha'erbin

  1. Synonym of Harbin: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • 1979, Ronald Francis Price, Education in Modern China‎, Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 93:
      The most important inland water transport takes place along three great rivers, the Xi-jiang (West River) by Guangzhou (Canton); the Yangzi Jiang, which links Shanghai, Wuhan and Chongqing (Chungking); and the Songhua Jiang (Sungari) which passes through Ha’erbin (Harbin) in the north-east.
    • 2004, Yan Sun, “Between the State and Localities: The Regional Dynamics of Corruption”, in Corruption and Market Economy in China‎, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 128–129:
      The Guomao Trading Town Company, contractor of the largest and centrally located shopping mall in Ha'erbin, had not paid a penny of taxes two years after its opening since 1992.
    • 2008, Wendy Lee, Happy Family‎, →ISBN, page 33:
      "Where are they buried?" I asked.
      "In Ha'erbin," she said.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ha'erbin.

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References

  1. ^ “Har·bin or Ha-erh-pin”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308, column 1: “Har·bin (härʹbēnʹ, -bǐnʹ) or Ha-erh-pin (häʹěrʹbǐnʹ)”
  2. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Harbin”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 757, column 1: “Harbin (härʹbǐn, härʹbēnʹ), Chinese Ha-erh-pin (härʹbǐnʹ), Rus. Kharbin (khärbyēnʹ),”

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