Xishui
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 浠水 (Xīshuǐ).
Proper noun
[edit]Xishui
- A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
- [1952 March 23 [1952 March 22], “Revolt by 280 Armed Men in Red China Acknowledged”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch[1], volume 104, number 180, St. Louis, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2A, column 6:
- A belated Chinese Communist report disclosed today that a local armed revolt against the Communist government broke out in Hsishui county in Hupei province on Feb. 21 and 22.]
- 2020 January 31, Dake Kang, “The shunned: People from virus-hit city tracked, quarantined”, in AP News[3], archived from the original on 2022-02-15[4]:
- So he went to the hospital and got checked. Doctors determined it was a common cold, not the new coronavirus, he says, and he returned home. Then a week ago, he says, five officers showed up at his house in Xishui County, a two hour drive from Wuhan. They wore masks and wielded blue, gun-shaped thermometers.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xishui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 1