Huixian

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 輝縣／辉县 (Huīxiàn).

Proper noun

Huixian

1. A county-level city in Xinxiang, Henan, China.
   • 2016, Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, Ella Morton, “East Asia”, in Atlas Obscura‎^[1], New York: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150, column 2:

     From the city of Xinxiang, get a bus to Huixian, then switch to a Nanping-bound bus.

   • 2021 July 22, Pei Lin Wu, Rebecca Tan, “Death toll in China floods climbs to at least 33 as rains spread and more cities call for help”, in Washington Post‎^[2], archived from the original on July 22, 2021‎^[3]:

     “The most, most crucial thing is that we don’t have food at the moment. We haven’t eaten since the morning,” said Li Xiqin, chief of the Gongji Hospital of Huixian city, where flooding has left her stranded on the hospital premises with 380 nursing home residents, 150 patients and 150 staff members.[...]On Wednesday, Xinxiang, a city of 5 million that includes Huixian, reported a two-hour rainfall rivaling the deluge in Zhengzhou, local news outlets reported.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輝縣／辉县 (zh) (Huīxiàn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huixian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1330, column 2