Huangmei

See also: Huang-mei

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Etymology

From Mandarin 黃梅黄梅 (Huángméi).

Proper noun

Huangmei

  1. A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
    • 1918, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China, University of Birmingham, →OCLC, page 305:
      As observed in the Huangmei district in south-eastern Hupeh, the Rhaetic sandstones and shales with their characteristic purple colour directly overlie the Lower Permian limestone and Silurian shale.
    • 2011, Connie A. Shemo, “"To Stand for the Best of Everything": Shi Meiyu, 1914-1920”, in The Chinese Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1872-1937: On a Cross-Cultural Frontier of Gender, Race, and Nation (History; Medical), Lehigh University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158:
      [] sending the more serious cases to Danforth in Jiujiang.⁶⁹ In her 1917 annual report, Shi wrote that her nurses had set up dispensaries in the interior cities of Huangmei (Hwangmei) and Taihu (Tai Hu).
    • 2020 March 28, Sidney Leng, “Coronavirus: police, public clash as border reopens between Hubei and Jiangxi provinces”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 March 2020, Society:
      According to local government reports, the incident happened on the 1st Yangtze River Bridge that separates Huangmei county in Hubei – the province at the epicentre of the initial coronavirus outbreak – with the city of Jiujiang in Jiangxi.
  2. A town in Huangmei, Huanggang, Hubei, China.

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