Hetian
English
Alternative forms
- Hotien, Ho-tien, Ho-t'ien
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 和田 (Hétián).
Proper noun
Hetian
- Synonym of Hotan: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- 2005, “Uighur Separatists Arrested in Xinjiang's Hetian Prefecture”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China:
- Police arrested seven members of an East Turkestan separatist organization in Hetian prefecture in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, according an to August 30 article in the Hong Kong daily Wen Wei Po.
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