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Taipingxi

Syllables: Tai·ping·xi/ˌtaɪpɪŋˈʃiː/

Taipingxi proper noun: a town in Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

Taipingxi

  1. A town in Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.
    • In the fifth year of K'ang-hsi [1666] Huang Yü-hsüan, the magistrate, established the three t'u of T'ai-p'ing Hsi Hsiang, restoring the original number.[1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 532
    • On the issue of a dam site, the YVPO and those who build protective engineering projects (fanghu gongcheng) favored the Taipingxi site; the shipping and construction departments favored the Sandouping site; and others felt that they lacked sufficient information to make a well-grounded decision.1988, Kenneth Lieberthal, Michel Oksenberg, Policy Making in China: Leaders, Structures, and Processes, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 314
  2. A village in Taipingxi, Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.
    Synonyms:
    T'ai-p'ing-ch'i

Examples of Taipingxi in a sentence

  • Taipingxi the generals also liked: they could set up lots of antiaircraft guns here, they reported.1996, Simon Winchester, The River at the Center of the World, New York: Picador, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 224:
  • Taipingxi Township, Yichang County, provided experience from developing tea farms on which relocatees can be resettled.1998, Dai Qing, translated by Yi Ming, edited by John G. Thibodeau and Philip B. Williams, The River Dragon has Come! The Three Gorges Dam...

Synonyms of Taipingxi

  • T'ai-p'ing-ch'i

Forms of Taipingxi

alternative formT'ai-p'ing-hsi

Origin of Taipingxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 太平溪 (Tàipíngxī).

Questions about Taipingxi

What does Taipingxi mean?
Taipingxi means a town in Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.
How do you use Taipingxi in a sentence?
Taipingxi the generals also liked: they could set up lots of antiaircraft guns here, they reported.
What part of speech is Taipingxi?
Taipingxi is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Taipingxi?
Taipingxi is pronounced /ˌtaɪpɪŋˈʃiː/.

Words near Taipingxi in the dictionary

  1. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
  2. Taiping Island
  3. Taipingdian
  4. Taipings
  5. Taipingshan
  6. Taipingxi
  7. taipo
  8. taipos
  9. Taiqian
  10. taique
  11. taiques

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