Xinmi

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新密 (Xīnmì).

Proper noun

Xinmi

1. A county-level city in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
   • [1970, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:

     The participants stressed that they must apply to the building of the regime Mao's Army-building line and Lin's principles and politices, laying stress on building the Army politically. PLA representatives [not named] stationed at the (Hsinmi) mining bureau, Chengchow motor vehicle plant and Chengchow coal-mine machinery factory "have done well in this respect". (Chengchow, Honan provincial service 23.30 GMT 22.11.70)]

   • 1998, George Wehrfritz, Lynette Clemetson, “Missionaries Flock to China”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2008-08-29, Religion‎^[3]:

     The children are dressed in their Sunday best when "Grandma Jane" arrives at the orphanage in rural Xinmi County. […]
     Until 1994 Marcum, now 58, taught high-school biology in Mound City, Kans. Then one day "God told me to move to China," she remembers. A self-described "spiritual Christian," she took early retirement, told her husband and two grown children she'd see them during summer holidays and journeyed to Henan province, where friends introduced her to Xinmi officials

   • [2003, Yanlai Wang, “Legacies of Mao Zedong: Constraints and Opportunities”, in China's Economic Development and Democratization‎^[4], Ashgate, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:

     By the end of November 1958, incidences of peasants starving to death were reported in the Mi County of Henan Province.]

   • 2012, Hsiao-Hung Pai, Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants‎^[5], Verso Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86:

     Zhang Haichao was twenty-eight when he got pneumoconiosis. He was fit and well before he started working at an abrasive-materials factory in Xinmi, not far from Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, where he comes from. On the job, he inhaled a huge amount of dust every day. In the second half of 2007, he began to cough and felt short of breath.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新密 (zh) (Xīnmì)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Minix, inmix, mix-in, mixin