Cele

Synonym of Qira: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Proper noun

  1. Synonym of Qira: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • Five IBPP research stations-four in the Tianshan region (Muosuowan, Fukang, Bayinbuluke, and Turpan) and one (the Cele Desert Research Station) near Hetian on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin-support field work on a...
    • Salamet Memetimin, the communist party secretary for Chaka township’s Bekchan village, in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Chira (Cele) county, was among 97 officials recently charged with disciplinary...
    • Some local governments are struggling to maintain this pace of spending. In neighbouring Cele county, where authorities expected to have almost 12,000 detainees in vocational camps and detention centres, a budget for...

    Synonyms: Qira

Origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 策勒 (Cèlè).

Forms

Ts'e-le Ts'e-lo