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Hsi
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HSI
English
Alternative forms
en Xi Pinyin
Pronunciation
shē
en iː 1
Etymology 1
From en cmn ^習, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hsi².
Proper noun
s
en.
en 1929 Along the Road Another Milestone https://archive.org/details/anothermilestone00brit/ London w:British and Foreign Bible Society 427470831 67 https://archive.org/details/anothermilestone00brit/page/67/ An excellent example of the Chinese colporteur's zeal and capacity is afforded by Hsi Fuh Ts’ing, who lives at Hwangchow in the province of Hupeh.
en 1973 1971 Jürgen Domes Opposition and 'Readjustment' Rüdiger Machetzki The Internal Politics of China, 1949–1972 Die Ära Mao Tse-tung de https://archive.org/details/internalpolitics0000dome/ w:Praeger Publishers 73-755 740870 117 https://archive.org/details/internalpolitics0000dome/page/117/ In the course of this ‘Second Anti-Rightist Campaign’ (Erh-tz’u fan-yu), Ch’en Yün’s authority was considerably restricted, and the Vice-Premier and Secretary General of the State Council, Xi Zhongxun Hsi Chung-hsün (member of the CC), was dismissed.
en September 10, 2012 Rich Chang Tribute for pilot on 50th anniversary https://web.archive.org/web/20120911004337/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/09/10/2003542411 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 3 The ceremony held by civilians including Roger Hsi (zh 習賢德), a professor of journalism at Fu Jen Catholic University, Yang Hua-kun, a younger cousin of Chen, and three former members of the Black Cat Squadron took place at the Air Force’s martyrs tomb in Sindian District (zh 新店), New Taipei City (zh 新北市).Hsi said because Chen did not marry and his direct relatives live in Fuzhou, in China’s Fujian Province, they have been unable to go to Taiwan to apply to the government for compensation and have not received any compensation for his death in 50 years.
Translations
Chinese surname
Arabic: ar شِي
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 習 zaap6
Mandarin: cmn 習 Xí
Hungarian: hu Hszi
Japanese: ja 習 しゅう, Shū, ja シー Shī
Korean: ko ^습(習), ko ^시
Russian: ru Си
Vietnamese: vi Tập (vi 習), vi Xi
Etymology 2
From en cmn ^西, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hsi¹.Xi River, (Wade-Giles romanization) Hsi Chiang (“West River”), in Encyclopædia Britannica
Proper noun
en Xi.
en 1958 China, Agriculture and Food Supply C. K. Leung; Norton Ginsburg The Pattern of Asia https://archive.org/details/patternofasia00gins/ Edgewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1961 58-8513 299542148 177 https://archive.org/details/patternofasia00gins/page/177/ The hilly topography restricts the cultivated area mainly to the valleys of the Hsi River and of its tributaries in Kuang-hsi and Kuang-tung and the lowlands of T'ai-wan and Hai-nan. Western T'ai-wan and the Hsi River delta have extremely high population densities.
en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1977-05-29_18_21/ May 29, 1977 Educated youths make trouble in big cities Free China Weekly XVIII 21 Taipei 173763215 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1977-05-29_18_21/page/n2/ Some 2,000 are reported to have escaped to Ichang alone, and finding no way to support themselves in the city, have engaged in group robberies. It was said the plundering of “Ichang Supplying and Sciling Cooperative” freighters traveling on the Hsi River was the work of these youths.
en 2008 George Childs Kohn Chinese Cholera Epidemics of 1937–42 Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence: From Ancient Times to the Present https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpl0000unse_s0d2/ 3rd w:Facts on File 978-0-8160-6935-4 2006041296 77047802 72 https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpl0000unse_s0d2/page/72/ 1 During World War II (1939–45) and following the Japanese occupation of Burma, the Malay states, and Hong Kong, cholera marched across southern China along different military routes. It arrived in Guangdong along the Xi (Hsi) River and crossed over the Burmese border to infect Yunnan and Guangxi provinces.
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