Hechi

See also: hēchì, hèchì, and Héchí

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河池 (Héchí).

Proper noun

Hechi

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangxi, China
   • 2012 February 4, Andrew Jacobs, “China Fires 7 Officials After Spill”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 February 2012, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     During a news conference in Hechi on Friday, officials said that 90,000 pounds of fish and more than a million fry had been killed and that several hundred villagers downstream had consumed river water for five days before they were notified about the dangers.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 河池 (zh) (Héchí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hechi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1258, column 3