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Xihe

Syllables: Xi·he

Xihe proper noun: a solar deity in Chinese mythology.

Proper noun (1)

Xihe

  1. a solar deity in Chinese mythology

Proper noun (2)

Xihe

  1. A town in Xiaonan district, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.

Proper noun (3)

Xihe

  1. A county of Longnan, Gansu, China.
    • BRIEFS NORTHWEST REGION KANSU COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS WORK -- Some 80 staffers and workers of the Hsiho County Posts and Telecommunications Bureau have readjusted the postroads in the county three times.[1976, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 128-148, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10
    • Conflicting or multiple locations are given for Qiu Pool. Probably the one Du Fu was thinking of was atop Qiu Pool Mountain 仇池山 in modern Xihe County 西和縣, Gansu.2006, Ronald Egan, “Art Collecting and Its Discontents in the Lives of Su Shi, Wang Shen, and Mi Fu”, in The Problem of Beauty: Aesthetic Thought and Pursuits in Northern Song Dynasty China (Harvard...

Proper noun (4)

Xihe

  1. A district of Fuxin, Liaoning, China.

Forms of Xihe

alternative formSiho
alternative formHsi-ho

Origin of Xihe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 羲和 (Xīhé).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西河 (Xīhé).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西和 (Xīhé).

Questions about Xihe

What does Xihe mean?
Xihe means a solar deity in Chinese mythology.
What part of speech is Xihe?
Xihe is a proper noun.

Words near Xihe in the dictionary

  1. Xigazê
  2. Xigong
  3. Xigu
  4. xigua
  5. xiguas
  6. Xihe
  7. Xihu
  8. Xihua
  9. Xihuila
  10. XIIIth
  11. Xiism

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