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Wuqi

Syllables: Wu·qi

Wuqi proper noun: a county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun (1)

Wuqi

  1. A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
    • Wuqi has been able to try a different economic model because it is neither too rich nor too poor. Located in Shaanxi Province, about a third of the way west from Beijing toward Tibet, it is too remote to be a factory boomtown.[…]
    • In Wuqi, Internet service works quite well, and personal computers have become common in the last few years. “All my colleagues shop online,” says Ma Jingye, 24, who works for the county government. She was using the Internet regularly while she was going to college in Beijing, and when she...2010 November 24, David Leonhardt, “In China, Cultivating the Urge to Splurge”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 May 2011, Magazine

Proper noun (2)

Wuqi

  1. A district of Taichung, Taiwan.
    • Especially dry locations included Taichung's Wuqi District, which recorded only 0.5 mm of rainfall during July, and Chiayi weather station, which reported 58 mm, the bureau said.2022 August 4, Hsiung-feng Chang, Matthew Mazzetta, “Taiwan records historically hot, dry weather in July”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022
    • A factory fire broke out in Taichung City’s Wuqi District on Saturday evening (Jan. 6), with plumes of smoke frightening nearby residents.2024 January 7, Sean Scanlan, “Late night factory fire in central Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2024

Forms of Wuqi

alternative formWuchi
alternative formWuci

Origin of Wuqi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳起 /吴起 (Wúqǐ, literally “Wu Qi”).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 梧棲 (Wúqī).

Questions about Wuqi

What does Wuqi mean?
Wuqi means a county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
What part of speech is Wuqi?
Wuqi is a proper noun.

Words near Wuqi in the dictionary

  1. Wuornoses
  2. wupatkiite
  3. WUPJ
  4. Wupper
  5. Wuppertal
  6. Wuqi
  7. Wuqing
  8. Wuqiu
  9. wurali
  10. wurari
  11. wurbagool

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