Qinhuangdao

• (from Wade-Giles) Ch'in-huang-tao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 秦皇島／秦皇岛 (Qínhuángdǎo).

Qinhuangdao

1. A prefecture-level city in Hebei, China.
   • [1978 December, Weiss, Ruth, “Peitaiho—Vistas from a Seaside Resort”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume XVII, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37, column 1:

     In Funing county of Hopei province, in the opposite direction to Chinhuangtao, if you go from Peitaiho, we saw then a reser- voir built in 1959 to tame the Yangho River which had been a menace in the past.]

• Chinwangtao

• “Qinhuangdao”, in Collins English Dictionary.