Meixian

English Meixian District Alternative forms en Meishien en Mei-hsien Wade-Giles Etymology en cmn 梅縣 via en cmn-pinyin -. Pronunciation mā′shyĕn′Meihsien 1179 2 Meihsien cmn 梅縣 (mā′shyĕn′), en Mei xian Proper noun en former county p/Guangdong c/China, ancestral home of many Hakka emigrants en Mei County en 19 February 1976 13 February 1976 Spring Farming in Kwangtung Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 34 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924113136042&seq=643 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Canton Kwangtung Provincial Service cmn 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: Central-South Region H 7 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924113136042&seq=701 To date Meihsien Prefecture has collected 160,000,000 piculs of manure, and spring farming is in full swing in the prefecture. on en 1977 May w:Rewi Alley Meihsien—the Great Hakka Centre Eastern Horizon https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1977-05_16_5/ XVI 5 Hong Kong Eastern Horizon Press 0012-8813 751117974 16 https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1977-05_16_5/page/16/ The first county centre gone through, that of Tsengcheng, was full of new construction. After it, the language on the road right on into the Meihsien prefecture was Hakka.It took us five hours to get to Hoyuan, where we had lunch and a nap, starting out on the road again at three in the afternoon, and finally coming to rest in Wuhua, our first stop in the Meihsien prefecture, at nine in the evening. on en March 1, 1990 w:Sheryl WuDunn A Hero in Canton, a Harbinger of Prosperity w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150525190141/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/01/world/a-hero-in-canton-a-harbinger-of-prosperity.html 25 May 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/01/world/a-hero-in-canton-a-harbinger-of-prosperity.html 0362-4331 1645522 Mr. Ye's more recent roots are in a county of Guangdong called Meixian, which is now a city in the northeast part of the province. en 2004 November Cindy Yik-yi Chu Difficult Years, 1937–1951 The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969: In Love with the Chinese https://archive.org/details/maryknollsisters0000chuc/ w:Palgrave Macmillan 1-4039-6586-2 2004044460 54479218 48 https://archive.org/details/maryknollsisters0000chuc/page/48/ She sadly bade farewell to the Sisters, who were returning to Jiaying (or Meixian), Guangdong Province, from Hong Kong. With foreseeable dangers ahead of them, the Sisters prepared for the worst in China. en district prefecture-level city/Meizhou p/Guangdong c/China. en July 28,2020 w:Taiwan Affairs Office Basic facts about Taiwan https://web.archive.org/web/20200731033043/https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/202007/28/content_WS5f1f8c45c6d029c1c2636d06.html 31 July 2020 w:State Council of the People's Republic of China Among them, the Minnan and Hakka peoples are collectively called benshengren, as they mostly moved to Taiwan before 1945. Specifically, most Minnan people, nearly 70 percent of Taiwan’s total population, can trace their ancestry to today’s Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in East China’s Fujian province; today’s Longyan city in Fujian province and Meixian district in South China’s Guangdong province are the ancestral homes for the majority of the Hakka people — making up about 15 percent of the total. Synonyms from Hakka en Moiyan, en Moiyen, en Moyan, en Moyen from Cantonese uncommon en Mui Yuen Translations district Chinese: Cantonese: yue 梅縣 Mandarin: cmn 梅縣 Japanese: ja References en 2-syllable words