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Jixi

Syllables: Ji·xi

Jixi proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.

Proper noun (1)

Jixi

  1. A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.
    • Heilungkiang. The commander of the garrison of Chihsi was reported to have ordered an armed attack on a Red Guard rally on May 14, a number of Red Guards being wounded and 1,000 arrested, whilst 11 people were reported on June 12 to have been killed in fighting between 20,000 Maoists and...[1967, “The Wuhan Revolt and After”, in The Cultural Revolution in China: Its Origins and Course (Keesing's Research Report), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 50
    • In Heilongjiang Province alone, 14 graphite deposits are reported, with 1 occurrence near Jixi City reportedly containing 300 Mmt of surface-minable material (31) and another large deposit located in the Heling area of Boli County.1987, Catharine T. Fogg; Edward H. Boyle, Jr., “Major CPEC Flake Graphite Producers”, in Flake and High Crystalline Graphite Availability—Market Economy Countries: A Minerals Availability Appraisal...

Proper noun (2)

Jixi

  1. A county of Xuancheng, Anhui, China.
    • A native of Chihsi hsien, Anhwei, Hu Shih was born in Shanghai.[…]Hu Shih and his mother returned to the family home in Chihsi in early 1895, but Hu Ch'uan remained in Taitung, where he was serving as prefectural magistrate and garrison commander, until summer.[1968, “Hu Shih”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, volume II, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167
    • Another Hu family, from Jixi County, sold tea; they were the ancestors of President Hu Jintao, whose father, while living in Jiangsu, tried to expand the tea business to Shanghai and Zhejiang, and exported tea leaves to Europe and the United States, wrote Lee Khoon Choy, a retired Singaporean...2012 March 29, Edward Wong, “In Rural China, Temples to Past Merchant Wealth Endure”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2012, Asia Pacific

Forms of Jixi

alternative formKisi
alternative formChi-hsi

Origin of Jixi

c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雞西 /鸡西 (Jīxī).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 績溪 /绩溪 (Jìxī).

Questions about Jixi

What does Jixi mean?
Jixi means a prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.
What part of speech is Jixi?
Jixi is a proper noun.

Words near Jixi in the dictionary

  1. jiving around
  2. jivy
  3. Jiwani
  4. Jiwanis
  5. Jiwarli
  6. Jixi
  7. jixianite
  8. jixuecao
  9. Jiya
  10. Jiyang
  11. Jiyuan

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