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Tunxi

Syllables: Tun·xi/ˌtʊnˈʃiː/

Tunxi proper noun: a district of Huangshan, Anhui, China.

Proper noun

Tunxi

  1. A district of Huangshan, Anhui, China.
    • The bronze vessels discovered at Tunhsi, in Anhwei province south of the Yangtze River, were found in several tombs of the Western Chou dynasty.[1973 June, Nai Hsia, “600,000 Years of Labor and Struggle”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 3
    • The same is true of Western Zhou bronzes excavated in Dantu county, Jiangsu Province, and Tunxi, Anhui Province.[...]The bronzes from a tomb of the Western Zhou at Yiqi, Tunxi, also have some of their own peculiar designs, such as a gui with a weaving pattern commonly seen on bamboo-woven articles...1980, Li Xueqin, 中国青铜器的奥秘 [The Wonder of Chinese Bronzes], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 77
    Synonyms:
    Tunki

Synonyms of Tunxi

Forms of Tunxi

alternative formT'un-hsi

Origin of Tunxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 屯溪 (Túnxī).

Questions about Tunxi

What does Tunxi mean?
Tunxi means a district of Huangshan, Anhui, China.
What part of speech is Tunxi?
Tunxi is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Tunxi?
Tunxi is pronounced /ˌtʊnˈʃiː/.

Words near Tunxi in the dictionary

  1. Tunstead
  2. Tuntable Creek
  3. Tunuchuk
  4. Tunuchuks
  5. Tunworth
  6. Tunxi
  7. Tunxis
  8. tuny
  9. tuo zaafi
  10. Tuoba
  11. Tuohey

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