Ha'erbin
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English
Alternative forms
- Haerbin (also from Hanyu Pinyin)
- Ha-erh-pin, Ha-êrh-pin (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 哈爾濱／哈尔滨 (Hā'ěrbīn).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ha'erbin
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ha'erbin.
Translations
Harbin — see Harbin