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Xinhua

Syllables: Xin·hua

Xinhua proper noun: a district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. Also the ellipsis of Xinhua News Agency.

Proper noun (1)

Xinhua

  1. A district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.
    • In a move hailed by some as a step towards promoting business morality and branded as basically Orwellian by others, the country’s first community credit and reputation file system was launched in the Xinhua district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on March 20, according to a report run in China...2002 July 19, Tao Yuan, Chen Ying, “Business Booster or Big Brother?”, in Beijing Today, number 62, →ISSN, →OCLC, Voice 声音, page 6, column 1
  2. A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
  3. A town in Shennongjia, Hubei, China.

Proper noun (2)

Xinhua

  1. A county of Loudi, Hunan, China.
    • Chen Tianhua [1875-1905] was a young man from Xinhua district in Hunan province.1991, Su Xiaokang, Wang Luxiang, “A Reader's Guide”, in Richard W. Bodman, Pin P. Wan, transl., Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series Heshang (Cornell East Asia Series)...
    • By official decree, Langtang is a contented place, a town of 82,000 spread across 24 villages in Hunan Province where extreme poverty has been eliminated, crime is under control and schools are prospering.[…]
      But the people of Langtang experience a different reality. Incomes, while rising, remain...2021 May 26, “The Tragedy in Small-Town China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2021

Also used as

Xinhua is also the ellipsis of Xinhua News Agency.

Xinhua is also the alternative form of Sinhua.

Forms of Xinhua

alternative formHsinhua
alternative formHsin-hua
alternative formSinhua

Origin of Xinhua

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新華／新华 (Xīnhuá, literally “New China”).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新化 (Xīnhuà).

Questions about Xinhua

What does Xinhua mean?
Xinhua means a district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.
What part of speech is Xinhua?
Xinhua is a proper noun.

Words near Xinhua in the dictionary

  1. Xingye
  2. Xingyi
  3. xingzhongite
  4. xingzhongites
  5. Xinhai Revolution
  6. Xinhua
  7. Xinhui
  8. xinidamine
  9. Xining
  10. Xinis
  11. xinisteri

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