Beihai

See also: bèihài and Běihǎi

English

Part of the Nine Dragon Wall in Beihai Park

Alternative forms

• Pakhoi, Pak-hoi, Pak Hoi
• Pei-hai (obs.)

Etymology

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 北海 (Běihǎi, “North Sea”).

Proper noun

Beihai

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangxi, in southern China.
   • 2014 September 28, “4 boys in China drown while searching for eggs”, in AP News‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 June 2022:

     The city of Beihai in the southern province of Guangxi said in a statement online that the four boys — three of them aged 12 and one of them 11 — were searching in a city bay Saturday afternoon when they drowned.

2. A lake in Beijing, China.
   • [1978, Chih-yen Hsia, translated by Liang-lao Dee, The Coldest Winter in Peking‎^[2], Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 311:

     The pure waters of the Northern Lake (Pei-hai) originated in the Jade Spring Mountain and passed through the long Grand Canal and flowed through Shih-ch'a Lake. Then it fed into the Central Lake (Chung-hai) and the Southern Lake (Nan-hai), all the way to the Tung-tzu River.]

Related terms

• Zhongnanhai

Translations

city in Guangxi

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 北海 (Bak¹ hoi²)

  Mandarin: 北海 (zh) (Běihǎi)

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• Russian: Бэйхай (Bɛjxaj)