Bo'ai

See also: bô-ài and bó'ài

English

Alternative forms

  • Boai

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 博愛 / 博爱 (Bó'ài).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bǔʹīʹ[1]
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Hyphenation: Bo‧ai[2]

Proper noun

Bo'ai

  1. A county of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
    • [1970, Daily Report People's Republic of China‎[4], numbers 42-62, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
      HONAN COUNTY GRAIN -- Since 1965, Poai County has exceeded every year the grain output target set by the national agricultural development program. Grain and cotton output in 1969 set new records. Spring farming is now in full swing.]
    • 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan‎[5], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 426:
      28. In February 1939, wealthy leaders in Kaifeng were beaten and executed by the Japanese for refusing payment. The entire business community in Bo'ai county was locked up until they paid their taxes. Li and Jiang 1987: 61.
    • 2020 August 27, “ReTo Eco-Solutions Completes Henan Province Sewage Treatment Projects”, in AP News, PR Newswire‎[6], archived from the original on 20 June 2022‎[7]:
      ReTo was awarded contracts covering 4 villages in Bo’ai County, Jiaozuo City, located in Henan province.
    • [2022 July 5, Albee Zhang, Ella Cao, Ryan Woo, “Heatwaves expected to sweep northern China in next two weeks”, in Gerry Doyle, editor, Reuters‎[8], archived from the original on 11 July 2022, Asia Pacific‎[9]:
      A sprinkler irrigates a corn field to mitigate the impact of drought brought by high temperatures, in Xiliangshi village of Boai county in Jiaozuo, Henan province, China June 20, 2022.]

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Poai”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1487, column 3
  2. ^ cf. “中華人民共和國國家標準 [Basic rules of the Chinese phonetic alphabet orthography]”, in Pinyin.info‎[2] (in Chinese), 29 June 2012, archived from the original on 13 February 2016‎[3]: “6.6.2 音節前有隔音符號，移行時，去掉隔音符號，加連接號。 ― 6.6.2 If there is syllable dividing mark before a syllable, remove the syllable dividing mark and add a hyphen when moving to another line.”

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