Xiaoyi
Syllables: Xiao·yi
Xiaoyi proper noun: a county-level city of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Proper noun
Xiaoyi
- A county-level city of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
- But amongst our party was an official who had been magistrate at Hsiaoyi, a day's journey further north in the mountains, who affirmed that compared to the latter district, Chenan was a garden; for Hsiaoyi, it seems, has no land tax receipts, and practically no population.[…]
A road runs due south...[1921, Eric Teichman, “From T’ungkuan on the Yellow River Across the Eastern Ch’inling Shan to Hsingan on the Han River”, in Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China, Cambridge University... - After the re-capture of Fenyang and Shanchuantseng by the Government troops in Shansi Province, the Communists have retreated to Hsiaoyi. Under the personal direction of the Communist leader, Mao Tze-tung, the Communists are engaged in a serious fight with the Shansi troops near Hsiaoyi, reported...[1936 March 14, “Shansi Troops Take Offensive Against Reds on All Fronts”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 76, number 2, →OCLC, page 49, column 2
- But amongst our party was an official who had been magistrate at Hsiaoyi, a day's journey further north in the mountains, who affirmed that compared to the latter district, Chenan was a garden; for Hsiaoyi, it seems, has no land tax receipts, and practically no population.[…]
Origin of Xiaoyi
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孝義 /孝义 (Xiàoyì).
Questions about Xiaoyi
- What does Xiaoyi mean?
- Xiaoyi means a county-level city of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
- What part of speech is Xiaoyi?
- Xiaoyi is a proper noun.
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