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Hebi

Syllables: He·bi

Hebi proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

Proper noun

Hebi

  1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
    • But she said authorities in her native Henan province seized her passport this week, visited her home several times and told her not to leave the city of Hebi, where she lives. Officials also told her to inform her hosts that she is “too sick to attend” the meeting, she said.2014 October 23, Simon Denyer, “China bars AIDS activist from traveling despite talk of ending discrimination”, in The Washington Post (Asia & Pacific section), Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post...
    • Beijing resident Hu Yongwei bought more than a dozen apartments in the small central Chinese city of Hebi for about $31,000 in all, betting they will be financially more rewarding than other investments.2023 June 16, Liangping Gao, Marius Zaharia, “Cheap 'like cabbage' apartments in some Chinese cities draw buyers, and caution”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING/HONG...
    Synonyms:
    Hao-pi

Synonyms of Hebi

Forms of Hebi

alternative formHo-pi
alternative formHopi

Origin of Hebi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鶴壁 /鹤壁 (Hèbì).

Questions about Hebi

What does Hebi mean?
Hebi means a prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
What part of speech is Hebi?
Hebi is a proper noun.

Words near Hebi in the dictionary

  1. hebetic
  2. hebetude
  3. hebetudes
  4. hebetudinosity
  5. hebetudinous
  6. Hebi
  7. hebiatrics
  8. Hebner
  9. Hebners
  10. heboid
  11. heboidophrenia

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