Qiqihar
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Manchu ᠴᡳᠴᡳᡥᠠᡵ (cicihar).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtʃiːtʃiːˌhɑː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃiˌhɑɹ/
Proper noun
Qiqihar
- A city in Heilongjiang, China.
- 1985, Jeffery Boswall, “Some Notes on Bird Markets, Pigeon Keeping and Other Bird/Man Relations in China”, in The Avicultural Magazine, volume 91, page 136:
- In the grounds of my hotel at Qiqihar, Heilongjiang province, on 8th May 1983, I (J.B.) found a local bird-catcher with six traps slung from a tree.
- 1993, Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, “The Sino-Russian Conflict”, in Future Wars, Warner Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306:
- The defeat of General Beng's Thirty-fifth Group Army north-east of Qiqihar (10-17 August), and the ensuing defeat of General Yang's counterattack with the First Armoured Group Army (20-24 August), had compelled Deng's Twenty-third Group Army to fall back on Baicheng to avoid encirclement. Qiqihar fell to the Russian 17th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Eighth Guards Army) on 26 August, while Malenkov's Fifth Guards Tank Army swept through the relatively open country between Qiqihar and Harbin, intent on seizing the lower Nen river crossings and then smashing into the north-eastern flank of the Chinese Twenty-third Group Army.
- 2023 July 24, Keith Bradsher, “At Least 11 Killed After School Gym Roof Collapses During a Volleyball Practice in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 July 2023, Asia Pacific:
- Qiqihar, the last sizable city in China before reaching Mohe City, China’s northernmost town, briefly enjoyed an unlikely construction boom in 2016 and 2017.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Qiqihar.
Synonyms
Translations
city in Heilongjiang, China
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Further reading
- “Qiqihar”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Qiqihar, Qiqiha'er, Qiqihaer, Tsitsihar, Chichihaerh at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- “Qiqihar, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Qiqihar”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Qiqihar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Qiqihar” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qiqihar”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 3