Beihai

• Pei-hai (obs.)

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin[1] 北海 (Běihǎi, literally “North Sea”).

• enPR: bāʹhīʹ[1]

Beihai

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangxi, in southern China.
   • [1968, Theodore Shabad, “PEI-HAI”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 529, columns 1-2:

     The port was opened to foreign trade by the Chefoo Convention of 1876, and in the succeeding period a considerable traffic was developed by coolies and transport animals between Pei-hai and the Hsi Chiang Valley of Kwangsi Province.]

   • 2014 September 28, “4 boys in China drown while searching for eggs”, in AP News‎, 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, 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.]

• (from Cantonese, Guangxi) Pakhoi, Pak-hoi, Pak Hoi

• Zhongnanhai

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Beihai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 359, column 2