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Hsi-ling

Hsi-ling is the alternative form of Xiling.

Meaning of Xiling

Proper noun

Xiling

  1. A district of Yichang, Hubei, China.
    • To begin in the Yangtze Valley between Yi-ch’ang (Hupei) and Pa-tung (Szechwan), in the Hsiling Gorge area that was the gateway to the Red basin to the west: fifty-four early sites investigated in 1960 have been grouped into five categories, ranging in date, according to the estimates of the...[1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 177
  2. A subdistrict of Xiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.

Origin of Hsi-ling

From Mandarin 西陵 (Xīlíng) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-ling².

Questions about Hsi-ling

What is Hsi-ling the alternative form of?
Hsi-ling is the alternative form of Xiling.

Words near Hsi-ling in the dictionary

  1. HSH
  2. HSI
  3. Hsi Hu
  4. Hsi-an
  5. Hsi-ch'uan
  6. Hsi-ling
  7. Hsi-ning
  8. Hsi-sha
  9. Hsi-shuang-pan-na
  10. Hsi-shui
  11. Hsi-tsang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsi-ling (page history and authors); Xiling (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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