Heihe

See also: heihe and hēihé

English

Alternative forms

• Hei-ho (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 黑河 (Hēihé, literally “black river”) referring to the Amur.

Proper noun

Heihe

1. A prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China, on the Russian border, across the Amur river from the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk.
   • [1977 November, Rewi Alley, “To Heiho on the Heilungkiang”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[1], volume XVI, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:

     Nunkiang is a county of 450,000 people on a wide area, one of the counties of Heiho prefecture.]

   • 2015 December 15, Michael Schuman, “Thaw in China-Russia Relations Hasn’t Trickled Down”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 December 2015, International Business‎^[3]:

     Trade between Heihe and Blagoveshchensk reopened in 1986, and in 2000 a small special economic zone was formed along the border to encourage commerce. Shop fronts in Heihe display signs in both Chinese characters and Russian Cyrillic.

   • 2021 November 9, “Chinese city offers cash for clues in Covid 'people's war'”, in France 24‎^[4], sourced from Beijing (AFP), archived from the original on November 09, 2021, Live news‎^[5]:

     But the current outbreak has hit more than 40 cities, and officials in Heihe -- a northern city on the border with Russia -- said they would offer 100,000 yuan ($15,500) as a reward for information.
     "In order to uncover the source of this virus outbreak as soon as possible and find out the chain of transmission, it is necessary to wage a people's war of epidemic prevention and control," the city government said in a notice.

Translations

a prefecture-level city in northeastern China

• Arabic: خِيخِه m (ḵīḵih)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑河 (zh) (Hēihé)

• Japanese: 黒河 (こくか, Kokuka)
• Korean: 헤이허 (Heiheo)
• Russian: Хэйхэ́ m (Xɛjxɛ́)
• Vietnamese: Hắc Hà

See also

• Black River

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Heihe”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1260, column 2