Qinghai

See also: Qīnghǎi

English

Alternative forms

• Tsinghai, Tsing-hai

Etymology

From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 青海 (Qīnghǎi, literally “Blue Sea”), a calque of Mongolian ᠬᠥᠬᠡ
ᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (köke naɣur) as traditionally Mongolian did not distinguish between large bodies of water.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɪŋˈhaɪ/

Proper noun

Qinghai

1. A province in northwestern China.
2. A lake in Qinghai.

Synonyms

• Amdo (as a Tibetan region)
• Koko Nor, Koko-nur, &c. (lake, region, & province, historical)

Translations

a Chinese province

• Arabic: تْشِينْغْهَاي m (tšinḡhay), تْشِينْغْخَاي m (tšinḡḵay)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 青海 (cing¹ hoi²)

  Mandarin: 青海 (zh) (Qīnghǎi)

• Czech: Čching-chaj
• Hungarian: Csinghaj
• Japanese: 青海 (ja) (せいかい, Seikai)
• Korean: 칭하이 (Chinghai)
• Macedonian: Чи́нгхај (Čínghaj)
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• Manchu: ᡴᡠᡴᡝ
  ᠨᠣᠣᡵ (kuke noor), ᡥᡠᡥᡠ
  ᠨᠣᠣᡵ (huhu noor)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Хөхнуур (Xöxnuur)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠬᠡᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (kökenaɣur), ᠬᠥᠬᠡ
  ᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (köke naɣur)

• Russian: Цинха́й m (Cinxáj)
• Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན (mtsho sngon zhing chen), ཁུ་ཁེ་རྲོའུར (khu khe rro'ur)
• Vietnamese: Thanh Hải (vi)
• Zhuang: Cinghhaij

See also

• Xining