Yuhsi

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 玉溪 (Yùxī), Wade–Giles romanization: Yü⁴-hsi¹.

Proper noun

Yuhsi

1. Alternative form of Yuxi
   • 1960 August 29, “Higher Autum Grain Yield is Possible”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts‎^[1], number 168, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page BBB 2-BBB 3:

     The PEOPLE'S DAILY today front pages a news item in column one in the experience of Yuhsi County in Yunnan which "mastered the law of agricultural field management, and found the key to increasing autum grain production."

   • 1971, “A Yi Flight Commander”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume X, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:

     Yang Kuo-hsiang was born in a poor peasant family in Yuhsi County in Yunnan Province, South-west China, and tended cows for a landlord at the age of nine. One year the Kuomintang reactionaries pressganged men and Yang Kuo-hsiang was forced to leave his village.

   • 1978 July, Yu-ting Tu, Chen Lu-fan, “Was There a Massive Exodus of Thais?”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[3], volume XVII, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

     The most prominent service Tuan rendered to the Mongols was the suppression of the uprising in 1264 of some 100,000 people from the various tribes in Yunnan. The uprising spread from the present Yuhsi in Yunnan to other towns like Chuching and Chuhsiung, and finally Chungching (Kunming) fell to the rebel forces.