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Siccawei

/sɪːkəˈweɪ/

Siccawei proper noun: synonym of Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.

Proper noun

Siccawei

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
    • The factory we went to see was out in the Hsuchiahui (Siccawei, in Shanghai dialect) district, and was called the Deaf and Mute Workers' Electrical Appliance Factory No. 2.1973, Rewi Alley, “Shanghai”, in 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 76
    • Early on the morning of the eighteenth the Taipings occupied the historic town of Hsu-chia-hui, or Siccawei, just west of the port, where Jesuit missionaries had long before established an important Catholic community.1992, Caleb Carr, “"Not As Was Hoped, Dead..."”, in The Devil Soldier: The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 126
    Synonyms:
    Xujiahui
  2. (obsolete) Synonym of Xuhui, the larger district of Shanghai, China, surrounding Xujiahui.
    Synonyms:
    Xuhui

Synonyms of Siccawei

Origin of Siccawei

A romanization of the Shanghainese pronunciation of Chinese 徐家匯 /徐家汇 (xxi-ka-hhue).

Questions about Siccawei

What does Siccawei mean?
Siccawei means synonym of Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
What part of speech is Siccawei?
Siccawei is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Siccawei?
Siccawei is pronounced /sɪːkəˈweɪ/.

Words near Siccawei in the dictionary

  1. siccates
  2. siccating
  3. siccation
  4. siccative
  5. siccatives
  6. Siccawei
  7. sicced
  8. siccer
  9. siccimeter
  10. siccimeters
  11. siccing

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