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Wu-hsi

Wu-hsi is the alternative form of Wuxi.

Meaning of Wuxi

Proper noun (1)

Wuxi

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China.
    • Like most of the women in her village, Ren Riqing looks after children: “This is my nephew. His parents work far away in a factory in Wuxi. It’s not as strenuous as working here in the fields. I have a son and a daughter -- they’re also in Wuxi. If things go well, they come back once in two years....2008 January 30, Ren Riqing, quotee, “Urban Migrants Stranded in China”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2023

Proper noun (2)

Wuxi

  1. A county of Chongqing, China.
    • The landslide on Tuesday demolished a five-story apartment building and two private hotels in Wuxi County in Sichuan Province.1987 September 7, “Landslide Toll in China Is 65”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, World, page 3

Origin of Wu-hsi

From Mandarin 無錫 /无锡 (Wúxī) Wade–Giles romanization: Wu-hsi.

Questions about Wu-hsi

What is Wu-hsi the alternative form of?
Wu-hsi is the alternative form of Wuxi.

Words near Wu-hsi in the dictionary

  1. Wu-chiang
  2. Wu-chih
  3. Wu-chou
  4. Wu-flu
  5. Wu-Han
  6. Wu-hsi
  7. Wu-hsüeh
  8. Wu-hu
  9. Wu-kung
  10. Wu-lu-mu-ch'i
  11. Wu-ma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wu-hsi (page history and authors); Wuxi (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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