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Xiayi

Syllables: Xia·yi

Xiayi proper noun: a county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.

Proper noun

Xiayi

  1. A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
    • The editorial, which was published June 19, said the Yiwu farm had requisitioned about twenty acres of land and required 195 peasant families to exchange fifty-four more acres under such circumstances that a number of peasants later produced less on the poorer land they had received. Listing...[1972 [1953 July 2], Henry R. Lieberman, “Peiping Bids Reds Curb Land Reform”, in O. Edmund Clubb, editor, China (The Great Contemporary Issues), New York: Arno Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175
    • In Honan’s Hsia-i County, Nien chieftain Hou Huang-le led two hundred relatives with the same surname, and in neighboring Shang-ch’iu, chieftain Chang San’s Nien following consisted of three hundred who shared his surname.[…]
      Hsia-i County (Honan), 128[1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 128, 319

Examples of Xiayi in a sentence

  • By the roadside of a pitched country road in Jiyang Village, stretching to Xiayi County, in Henan Province, in central China, a coffin was placed for three days prior to burial.2006, Caroline Cox, Catherine Butcher, quoting Liu Haitao's Pastor, “A new martyr for a new millennium”, in Cox's Book of Modern Saints and...
  • Employees work on the production line making clothes for export at a factory in Xiayi county, in Shangqiu in China’s central Henan province in August 2018.2019 April 30, Stephen Roach, “Donald Trump’s case against China is deeply flawed and ignores weaknesses in the American economy”, in South...

Origin of Xiayi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 夏邑.

Questions about Xiayi

What does Xiayi mean?
Xiayi means a county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
How do you use Xiayi in a sentence?
By the roadside of a pitched country road in Jiyang Village, stretching to Xiayi County, in Henan Province, in central China, a coffin was placed for three days prior to burial.
What part of speech is Xiayi?
Xiayi is a proper noun.

Words near Xiayi in the dictionary

  1. Xiaoshahe
  2. Xiaoting
  3. Xiaoyi
  4. xiapei
  5. Xiapu
  6. Xiayi
  7. Xiayunling
  8. Xibaipo
  9. Xibalba
  10. Xibalban
  11. Xibalbans

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