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Jili

Syllables: Ji·li

Jili proper noun: a district of Luoyang, Henan, China.

Proper noun

Jili

  1. (historical) A district of Luoyang, Henan, China.
    • In March this year when production of the factory was in full swing, four procuratorial personnel of Jili District took away account books of a service company at the factory’s dormitory in Xigong District of Luoyang City. Four days later the procuratorate sealed two safes belonging to the company...1988 June 29 [1988 June 20], Chen Chaozhong (7115 2600 0022) [陳朝中], “District Party Committee Secretary Causes Production at a Chemical Works To Be Partly Stopped Because He Fails To Extort What He...
    • These businesses, usually small and weak, were often forced by corrupt officials to engage in bribery in order to stay in business. For example, as revealed by the People's Daily (June 22, 1988), Gao Yuncong, secretary of Jili District Party Committee of Luoyang City, Hunan, forced the Jili...1994, Ting Gong, The Politics of Corruption in Contemporary China: An Analysis of Policy Outcomes, Praeger, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127

Examples of Jili in a sentence

  • A transcript of a meeting between peasants and cadres in Jili district near Luoyang published in the Peasants’ Daily recorded some vivid complaints.1996, John Gittings, “Peasants in Revolt”, in Real China: From Cannibalism to Karaoke, Pocket Books, published 1997, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:
  • (7) Wetland eco-geological environment system: This system is mainly distributed along two banks of the Yellow River in Jili District, Luoyang, with an area is 15.72 km², 0.1% of the total area.2019, L. Yang et al., “The Regionalization of Eco-Geological Environment System”, in Geo-informatics in Sustainable Ecosystem and Society...

Origin of Jili

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吉利 (Jílì).

Questions about Jili

What does Jili mean?
Jili means a district of Luoyang, Henan, China.
How do you use Jili in a sentence?
A transcript of a meeting between peasants and cadres in Jili district near Luoyang published in the Peasants’ Daily recorded some vivid complaints.
What part of speech is Jili?
Jili is a proper noun.

Words near Jili in the dictionary

  1. Jilek
  2. Jileks
  3. Jiles-Atherton model
  4. jilgie
  5. jilgies
  6. Jili
  7. Jilin
  8. Jilin City
  9. jill
  10. jill of all trades
  11. Jill of all trades and mistress of none

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