Qitaihe

See also: Qītáihé

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 七臺河／七台河 (Qītáihé).

Proper noun

Qitaihe

1. A prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China.
   • [1978 November 15 [1978 September 24], “Heilungkiang Reservoir”, in Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[1], number 467, U. S. Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 55‎^[2]:

     The construction project of the (Taoshan) Reservoir, the largest one ever built in Heilungkiang, is under way. Located 10 kilometers east of the Chitaiho Municipality in Poli County, the reservoir will have a total water storage capacity of 648 million cubic meters.]

   • 2022 February 8, Chris Buckley, “At Winter Games, a Hard-Bitten Chinese Coal Town Hunts for Gold”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 February 2022, Beijing Olympics‎^[4]:

     China’s growing success in global sports is sometimes presented by promoters or detractors as a top-down plan hatched and executed in Beijing. The story of Qitaihe (pronounced like “chee-thai-her”) shows another side: a powerful element of local initiative. […]
     Many top skaters from Qitaihe come from blue-collar and farming families wagering that their children’s physical promise may open the way to sports honors and a better life. Fan’s parents have run a key-making and shoe repair shop in the city, which is in Heilongjiang Province, 125 miles from China’s border with Russia.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 七臺河／七台河 (zh) (Qītáihé)

• Czech: Čchi-tchaj-che
• Japanese: 七台河 (しちだいが)
• Korean: 치타이허 (chitaiheo)
• Russian: Цитайхэ (Citajxɛ)
• Vietnamese: Thất Đài Hà

Further reading

• Qitaihe at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qitaihe”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2548, column 1