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Xihua

Syllables: Xi·hua

Xihua proper noun: a county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.

Proper noun

Xihua

  1. A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
    • The Honan authorities do not appear to have been successful in maintaining order and suppressing brigandage. Amongst the innumerable acts of lawlessness reported, one of the most daring occurred in the early part of December when a band of 500 mounted robbers attacked the district city of Hsi-hua...[1914 April [1912], “Summary by Sir S. Head of General State of Affairs in the Provinces of China for last quarter of 1912”, in Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of China., London, →OCLC...
    • Led contingent of New 4th Army, operating with Eastern Honan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla 3rd Detachment, Aug. 1938; Hsiao’s contingent, 3rd Detachment, and a section of 4th Division, New 4th Army, led by P’eng Hsüeh-feng joined forces in Hsihua (西華) county and re-grouped to be a guerrilla detachment of...[1966 March, “HSIAO Wang-tung [蕭望東]”, in Who's Who in Communist China, Kowloon, Hong Kong: Union Research Institute, →OCLC, page 223, column 1

Examples of Xihua in a sentence

  • Surprisingly, the Xihua boycott in Youth Village (qingnian cun) was organized in the name of a peasant organization, the Central Plain Peasant Association (Zhongyuan nongmin xiehui).1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47:
  • The latest Christian "house church" crackdown is occurring in Xihua county, in Henan.2000 September 5, John Pomfret, “China Expands Crackdown on Religions Not Recognized by State”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Origin of Xihua

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西華 /西华.

Questions about Xihua

What does Xihua mean?
Xihua means a county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
How do you use Xihua in a sentence?
Surprisingly, the Xihua boycott in Youth Village (qingnian cun) was organized in the name of a peasant organization, the Central Plain Peasant Association (Zhongyuan nongmin xiehui).
What part of speech is Xihua?
Xihua is a proper noun.

Words near Xihua in the dictionary

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

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