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Wenhsi

Wenhsi is the alternative form of Wenxi.

Meaning of Wenxi

Proper noun

Wenxi

  1. A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
    • I arrived at the P’ei village in Wen-hsi county. I paid my respects at the shrine to the Duke of Chin (i.e. P’ei Tu, 764-839) and inquired after his descendants. There were still one or two hundred men who left their plowing to come and pay their respects together.[1973, Denis Twitchett, quoting Ku Yen-wu, “The Composition of the T’ang Ruling Class: New Evidence from Tunhuang”, in Arthur F. Wright, Denis Twitchett, editors, Perspectives on the T’ang (Asian...

Origin of Wenhsi

From Mandarin 聞喜 /闻喜 (Wénxǐ) Wade–Giles romanization: Wên²-hsi³.

Questions about Wenhsi

What is Wenhsi the alternative form of?
Wenhsi is the alternative form of Wenxi.

Words near Wenhsi in the dictionary

  1. Wenglish
  2. Wenham
  3. Wenhams
  4. Wenhaston
  5. Wenhaston with Mells Hamlet
  6. Wenhsi
  7. Wenig
  8. Wenigs
  9. Weninger
  10. Weningers
  11. wenion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wenhsi (page history and authors); Wenxi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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