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Hsinchiang

/ˈʃɪnˈt͡ʃ(j)ɑŋ/

Hsinchiang is the alternative form of Xinjiang.

Meaning of Xinjiang

Proper noun (1)

Xinjiang

  1. A Uyghur autonomous region of China, located in the sparsely populated northwest. Official name: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Capital: Ürümqi.
    • In the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, only local languages are used as a medium of instruction in the elementary and middle schools. In the same region, the law provides that both Chinese and Uighur must be used in all public documents.1975, “The National Minority Languages of China”, in Winfred P. Lehmann, editor, Language and Linguistics in the People's Republic of China, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114

Proper noun (2)

Xinjiang

  1. A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
    • Drumming in Shanxi Province can be dated back centuries earlier to Xinjiang County, the ancient name of Jiangzhou, in present-day Shanxi Province.2010 September 3, He Jianwei, “Beats of the land: Artist's persistence saves ethnic heritage”, in Beijing Today, number 482, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 12–13, columns 3-1

Origin of Hsinchiang

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 新疆 (Hsin¹-chiang¹).

Questions about Hsinchiang

What is Hsinchiang the alternative form of?
Hsinchiang is the alternative form of Xinjiang.
How do you pronounce Hsinchiang?
Hsinchiang is pronounced /ˈʃɪnˈt͡ʃ(j)ɑŋ/.

Words near Hsinchiang in the dictionary

  1. Hsin-chu
  2. Hsin-hsiang
  3. Hsin-kiang
  4. Hsin-yang
  5. Hsincheng
  6. Hsinchiang
  7. Hsinchu
  8. Hsinchuang
  9. Hsinfeng
  10. Hsing-shan
  11. Hsing-yang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsinchiang (page history and authors); Xinjiang (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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