Xiji

See also: xījì, xíjī, and xíjí

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西吉.

Proper noun

Xiji

1. A county of Guyuan, Ningxia, China.
   • [1972, Donald E. MacInnis, “Religion and Feudalism”, in Religious Policy and Practice in Communist China: A Documentary History‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 170:

     Huo Kui-hua, a Hui woman from Hsi-chi Hsien, accused Ma at the meeting and said that during the “April 2” revolt Ma Chen-wu’s bandit followers in Hsi-chi Hsien forced her father to join them. Because her father refused to comply, these bandits first cut off his legs and then burned him to death.]

   • 1996 October 26, Patrick E. Tyler, “In China's Outlands, Poorest Grow Poorer”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-26, World‎^[3]:

     Muslim villagers here in southern Ningxia, known as the Hui Autonomous Region, say that no official from the Xiji County government, 20 miles away, has ever hiked into this desperately poor hamlet to offer assistance to the peasants, most of whom cannot afford to send their children to school and for whom medical care is nonexistent.

   • 2011 April 1, Annie Wei, “Microbloggers bring rural students a free lunch”, in Beijing Today‎^[4], →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

     In Xiji County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, boarding school students ate nothing but potato noodles. They were found to have vitamin C, calcium and iron deficiencies.

   • 2014 January 5, Jonathan Standing, “Stampede at China religious event kills 14: state media”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 21 July 2022, Emerging Markets:

     A monitor shows the vital signs of a victim who was injured during a stampede at a mosque, in a hospital in Xiji county of Guyuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region January 5, 2014 in this picture released by Chinese official Xinhua News Agency.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xiji.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西吉 (zh) (Xījí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiji”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3502, column 2
• Xiji, Hsi-chi, Hsichi at Google Ngram Viewer