Cele

See also: cele, celé, celę, cèle, céle, célé, -cele, -cèle, čele, and челе

English

Alternative forms

• Ts'e-le, Ts'e-lo (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 策勒 (Cèlè).

Proper noun

Cele

1. Synonym of Qira: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1992, Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China‎^[1], National Academy Press, →ISBN, page 175:

     Five IBPP research stations-four in the Tianshan region (Muosuowan, Fukang, Bayinbuluke, and Turpan) and one (the Cele Desert Research Station) near Hetian on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin-support field work on a wide range of topics (Map 1-5).

   • 2017, Qiao Long, “'No Sign' of Kazakh Imam Scheduled For Release From Prison in July”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia‎^[2]:

     Salamet Memetimin, the communist party secretary for Chaka township’s Bekchan village, in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Chira (Cele) county, was among 97 officials recently charged with disciplinary violations, according to an April 10 report by the state-run Hotan Daily newspaper.

   • 2019, Lily Kuo, “'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's war on Islam”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     Some local governments are struggling to maintain this pace of spending. In neighbouring Cele county, where authorities expected to have almost 12,000 detainees in vocational camps and detention centres, a budget for 2018 says: “There are still many projects not included in the budget due to a lack of funds. The financial situation in 2018 is very severe.”

   • 2019, “Tianjin helping Xinjiang's football development in China”, in Shi Yinglun, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[4], archived from the original on 16 December 2019:

     Memet Azizi, director of Cele County's bureau of education, said that Tianjin's help had brought them hope for the future. With support from Tianjin, a standard football field and training center was constructed at Cele County's No. 1 Primary School.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Cele.

Translations

county in Hotan, Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 策勒 (zh) (Cèlè)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Elec., elce, elec.