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Chiehhsiu

Chiehhsiu is the alternative form of Jiexiu.

Meaning of Jiexiu

Proper noun

Jiexiu

  1. A county-level city of Jinzhong, central Shanxi, China.
    • He spent the rest of his life teaching at Chin-yang (T’ai-yuan), K’uo-hsien, and Chieh-hsiu in Shansi, using these years to master his favorite work, the Book of Changes (Chou i).[…]
      After his death at Chieh-hsiu in 1827 Chi-yü, his only son, collected Jun-ti’s miscellaneous essays from his...[1975, Fred W. Drake, “A Scholar-Official from Shansi”, in China Charts the World: Hsu Chi-yü and His Geography of 1848, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 10–11

Origin of Chiehhsiu

From Mandarin 介休 (Jièxiū), Wade–Giles romanization: Chieh⁴-hsiu¹.

Questions about Chiehhsiu

What is Chiehhsiu the alternative form of?
Chiehhsiu is the alternative form of Jiexiu.

Words near Chiehhsiu in the dictionary

  1. chieftainships
  2. chieftess
  3. chieftesses
  4. Chieh
  5. Chieh-yang
  6. Chiehhsiu
  7. Chiehmo
  8. Chiehshih
  9. Chieko
  10. chiel
  11. chield

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chiehhsiu (page history and authors); Jiexiu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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