Siyi

siyį́ English + dialect Alternative forms en Ssu-i Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 四邑 Sìyì. Pronunciation sûʹēʹ en Si yi Proper noun en A <<geographic region>> consisting of the four <<former counties>> of Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping, and Enping, collectively; now a part of the <<preflcity:pref/Jiangmen>>, <<p/Guangdong>>, <<c/China>>. en 1956 Jen-ts'ai (zh 梁仁采) Liang zh:广东经济地理<t:Economic Geography of Kwangtung> https://books.google.com/books?id=EnmuAAAAIAAJ Peiping 19877116 15–16 Aside from these two deltas, other densely-populated areas are the southern Mu-ming Plain in western Kwangtung and Ssu-i (including Hsin-hui, Kai-ping, Tai-shan, and En-ping) where the population density per square kilometer averages 300. on en 1969 w:Ezra Vogel Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968 https://archive.org/details/cantonundercommu00voge_0/ Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 0-674-09475-1 70-91631 444542084 24 https://archive.org/details/cantonundercommu00voge_0/page/24/ People in the Ssu-i (the four counties — T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, En-p'ing), for example, though not far from Canton, have their own distinct dialect, which is scarcely intelligible to an ordinary Cantonese. on en 1986 w:Him Mark Lai A History Reclaimed: An Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Language Materials on the Chinese of America https://archive.org/details/historyreclaimed0000laih/ w:University of California 0-934052-09-3 85-63309 230964710 4 https://archive.org/details/historyreclaimed0000laih/page/4/ https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5t2qnL8gTEC Report by village enumerates death and property losses in the Siyi region resulting from the Japanese invasion which began on 3 March 1941. en JUNE 28, 2007 James Pomfret Chinese diaspora villages made World Heritage site https://web.archive.org/web/20230301173853/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-heritage-unesco-idUSHKG30715420070628 01 March 2023 w:Reuters SCIENCE & SPACE Experts say up to 80 percent of the Chinese in North America came from the so called “Say-yat” region in the Pearl River Delta -- a group of four districts including Kaiping and Taishan. on en A dialect of Cantonese Chinese mainly spoken in Jiangmen. Synonyms from Cantonese en Sze Yap Szeyap Sz Yap Sze Yup Szeyup Sz Yup Seiyap Seiyup Sz Yip See Yip See Yup Translations region; dialect Chinese: Cantonese: yue 四邑 sei3 jap1 Mandarin: cmn 四邑 Sìyì Japanese: ja See also en Taishanese (a major dialect of Siyi Cantonese)