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Lishui

Syllables: Li·shui

Lishui proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, China.

Proper noun

Lishui

  1. A prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, China.
    • In a United Press despatch appearing in the Toronto papers about the middle of February it was stated that the Japanese had bombed an airdrome in Lishui, Chekiang, the headquarters of many Canadian Catholic missionaries. Apart from that despatch, no intimation has come to us at the seminary that...1938 March, “News from China”, in China Magazine, volume XIX, number 3, page 40
    • The night of April 18, 1942, was dark and drizzly. The Canadian fathers in Lishui, Chekiang, rose from their meal and turned on their radio: through the static from London came word that Tokyo announced enemy planes had bombed Japan.1945, Mark Tennien, “. . . Escape from Lishui”, in Chungking Listening Post, New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., →OCLC, page 31

Examples of Lishui in a sentence

  • Apart from that despatch, no intimation has come to us at the seminary that trouble has developed in Lishui.1938 March, “News from China”, in China Magazine, volume XIX, number 3, page 40:
  • Ji Wenhua was sentenced to death on Monday by Lishui intermediate court in Zhejiang for illegally raising 5.5 billion yuan ($867 million) between 2003 and 2008, the South China Morning Post reported.2011 November 8, James Pomfret, “China property developer sentenced to death-report”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived from the...

Forms of Lishui

alternative formLi-shui

Origin of Lishui

From Mandarin 麗水 /丽水.

Questions about Lishui

What does Lishui mean?
Lishui means a prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, China.
How do you use Lishui in a sentence?
Apart from that despatch, no intimation has come to us at the seminary that trouble has developed in Lishui.
What part of speech is Lishui?
Lishui is a proper noun.

Words near Lishui in the dictionary

  1. lishey
  2. Lishi
  3. lishizhenite
  4. lishmah
  5. Lishu
  6. Lishui
  7. lisi
  8. lisianthus
  9. lisianthuses
  10. Lisiecki
  11. Lisieckis

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