Wuxi

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See also: wúxí, Wúxí, wúxī, and Wúxī

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From the Hanyu Pinyin[2] romanization of the Mandarin 無錫无锡 (Wúxī).

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Wuxi

  1. A prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, in eastern China.
    • 2008 January 30, Ren Riqing, quotee, “Urban Migrants Stranded in China”, in Deutsche Welle[3], archived from the original on 27 December 2023[4]:
      Like most of the women in her village, Ren Riqing looks after children: “This is my nephew. His parents work far away in a factory in Wuxi. It’s not as strenuous as working here in the fields. I have a son and a daughter -- they’re also in Wuxi. If things go well, they come back once in two years. Travel costs money. It makes me sad, but what can I do?”
    • 2015 December 16, Aaron Gregg, “MedImmune expands its footprint in China with new deal”, in The Washington Post[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-12-17, Capital Business‎[6]:
      MedImmune, the Gaithersburg research arm of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, is making aggressive moves to expand its footprint in China.
      The company said Wednesday it plans to spend $50 million on another production facility in Wuxi, a city near Shanghai on China’s east coast.
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  1. ^ cf. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wusi or Wu-hsi”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1502, column 1:Until 1950 called Wuchan.
  2. ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map[2], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 368:
    Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: [] (1) the Post Office system, [] (2) the Wade-Giles system, [] shown after the main entry [] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses [] Wusih (Wu-hsi, Wuxi)

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Etymology 2

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 巫溪 (Wūxī).

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Wuxi

  1. A county of Chongqing, China.
    • 1987 September 7, “Landslide Toll in China Is 65”, in The New York Times[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-24, World, page 3‎[9]:
      The landslide on Tuesday demolished a five-story apartment building and two private hotels in Wuxi County in Sichuan Province.
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