Qiqihar

• Tsitsihar

Borrowed from Manchu ᠴᡳᠴᡳᡥᠠᡵ (cicihar).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃiːtʃiːˌhɑː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃiˌhɑɹ/

Qiqihar

1. A city in Heilongjiang, China.
   • 1980, China: U.S. Policy Since 1945‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80:

     On April 28 the Chinese Communists occupied Qiqihar, a railroad center in Manchuria.

   • 1985, Jeffery Boswall, Some Notes on Bird Markets, Pigeon Keeping and Other Bird/Man Relations in China‎, volume 91, page 136:

     In the grounds of my hotel at Qiqihar, Heilongjiang province, on 8th May 1983, I (J.B.) found a local bird-catcher with six traps slung from a tree.

   • 1993, Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, “The Sino-Russian Conflict”, in Future Wars‎, Warner Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306:

     The defeat of General Beng's Thirty-fifth Group Army north-east of Qiqihar (10-17 August), and the ensuing defeat of General Yang's counterattack with the First Armoured Group Army (20-24 August), had compelled Deng's Twenty-third Group Army to fall back on Baicheng to avoid encirclement. Qiqihar fell to the Russian 17th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Eighth Guards Army) on 26 August, while Malenkov's Fifth Guards Tank Army swept through the relatively open country between Qiqihar and Harbin, intent on seizing the lower Nen river crossings and then smashing into the north-eastern flank of the Chinese Twenty-third Group Army.

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh, Chichihaerh, Qiqihaer, Qiqiha'er

• “Qiqihar”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Qiqihar, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Qiqihar at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “Qiqihar”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Qiqihar” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.