Xiapu

• Siapu (Postal Romanization)
• Hsia-p'u, Hsiapu (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 霞浦 (Xiápǔ).

• enPR: shyäʹpo͞oʹ[1]

Xiapu

1. A county of Ningde, Fujian, China.
   • [1889 August, “Foochow Mission. THE RELIGIOUS AWAKENING.”, in The Missionary Herald‎, volume LXXXV, number VIII, →OCLC, page 329:

     Mr. Hubbard refers to the growth among the Christians at Sharp Peak. Three were received to the Hapuo church on May 12, and the chapel is opened every evening for preaching.

     (Note: Hapuo is the Eastern Min-derived name for Xiapu.)]

   • 1979, Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎, numbers 12-22, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     In order to receive the Taiwan fishermen compatriots, the Fujian Provincial Revolutionary Committee in early 1978 formally established these reception stations at the four fishing ports of Sansha in Xiapu [Hsiapu],[...]The Sansha reception station in Xiapu received 12 Taiwan fishing boats in 1978 and everytime^[sic] helped repair the boats and engines, provided fuel and drinking water and purchased grain, meat, vegetables and other foods before they departed.

   • 2008 July 18, “Weakened typhoon hits China after 6 die in Taiwan”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 07 April 2022:

     Tropical Storm Kalmaegi slammed into China’s southeastern coast on Friday, after killing six people in neighbouring Taiwan.
     The weakening storm made landfall in Xiapu county in Fujian province at 6:10 p.m. (1010 GMT), bringing winds of up to 90 kph the official Xinhua news agency said.

   • 2018, Zhu Pengli, Yuan Yin, Huang Feng, Huang Qiuxia, Li Qiaowei, “A9461 Associations between gene polymorphisms of the apelin–APJ system and the risk of hypertension”, in Journal of Hypertension‎, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Inhabitants of four villages in Haidao, Xiapu County, and three villages of Tailu, Lianjiang County, in Fujian Province, China, were included in this cross-sectional study, between July and November 2011.

   • 2019, Jiangyong Liu, The Diaoyu Islands: Facts and Legality‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 378:

     On July 15, they set sail for Fuzhou. However, they were struck by a storm on July 18 and floated to Sansha, Xiapu County in Fujian Province. There they got the help of local officials.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiapu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3502, column 1
• Xiapu, Siapu, Hsiapu, Hsia-pu, Hsia-p'u at Google Ngram Viewer

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