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Jiexiu

Syllables: Jie·xiu

Jiexiu proper noun: a county-level city of Jinzhong, central Shanxi, China.

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
    • Hou was born in 1896 in Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province, into a landlord family.1987, Wolfgang Bartke, “Hou Wailu (侯外庐)”, in Who's Who in the People's Republic of China, 2nd edition, K. G. Saur, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 149

Forms of Jiexiu

alternative formChieh-hsiu
alternative formChiehhsiu

Origin of Jiexiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 介休 (Jièxiū, “Jie's Rest”). Supposedly named by Ji Chong'er, the Wen Duke of Jin, in his remorse for having killed his loyal subject Jie Zhitui and Jie's mother with an intentional forest fire in the region.

Questions about Jiexiu

What does Jiexiu mean?
Jiexiu means a county-level city of Jinzhong, central Shanxi, China.
What part of speech is Jiexiu?
Jiexiu is a proper noun.

Words near Jiexiu in the dictionary

  1. Jie
  2. jie jie
  3. jiedushi
  4. Jiefang
  5. Jiexi
  6. Jiexiu
  7. Jieyang
  8. Jieznas
  9. Jieț
  10. jif
  11. jiff

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