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Shiqi
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English
+ Subdistrict, Guangdong
Shiqi Subdistrict
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1972 Shabad Theodore Index China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 345, 361 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/361/ Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles:(1) the Post Office system,(2) the Wade-Giles system,shown after the main entry(3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parenthesesShekki (Shihki, Shih-ch'i, Shiqi) romanization of the en cmn 石岐.
Pronunciation
shûʹchēʹ
en Shi qi
Proper noun
en subdistrict prefecture-level city/Zhongshan province/Guangdong c/China.
en 9 January 2022 Susan Jung Born poor, Hong Kong’s ‘Abalone King’ worked his way up to found a three-Michelin-star restaurant by perfecting the cooking of the dried delicacy w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20260513100915/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/food-drink/article/3162523/born-poor-hong-kongs-abalone-king-worked-his-way 13 May 2026 https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/food-drink/article/3162523/born-poor-hong-kongs-abalone-king-worked-his-way 1563-9371 648902513 Food & Drink “Abalone King” Yeung Koon-yat’s life has changed dramatically from the extreme poverty he was born into in 1932 in Shiqi, a subdistrict of Zhongshan, Guangdong province.
Synonyms
from Cantonese en Shekki
Translations
subdistrict of Zhongshan
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 石岐 sek6 kei4
Mandarin: cmn 石岐 Shíqí
References
en 2-syllable words