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Hupei

Hupei is the alternative spelling of Hubei.

Meaning of Hubei

Proper noun

Hubei

  1. A province in central China. Capital: Wuhan.
    • In 1965 the People’s Daily published sore figures for Yangxin xian in Hubei Province which showed how important the part-work schools were in raising school attendance figures (SCMP 3475, 1965).1970, R. F. Price, “Part-time schools and classes”, in Brian Holmes, editor, Education in Communist China (World education series), New York; Washington: Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 213
    Synonyms:
    Oopack

Forms of Hupei

alternative alsoHu-pei

Origin of Hupei

From Mandarin 湖北 (Húběi) Wade-Giles romanization: Hu²-pei³.

Questions about Hupei

What is Hupei the alternative spelling of?
Hupei is the alternative spelling of Hubei.

Words near Hupei in the dictionary

  1. Hupeh
  2. hupehsuchian
  3. hupehsuchians
  4. hupehsuchid
  5. hupehsuchids
  6. Hupei
  7. huperzia
  8. huperzias
  9. huperzine
  10. huperzines
  11. Hupi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hupei (page history and authors); Hubei (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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