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Xinyu

Syllables: Xin·yu

Xinyu proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.

Proper noun

Xinyu

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.
    • A fire in a commercial building in southeastern China killed at least 39 people on Wednesday, as emergency workers raced to rescue people still trapped inside.
      The fire broke out around 3:30 p.m. local time in Xinyu, a city in Jiangxi Province, in the basement of a building that housed an internet...2024 January 24, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Li You, Chris Buckley, Siyi Zhao, “Building Fire in China Kills at Least 39, With Others Trapped”, in The New York Times, sourced from Beijing, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Origin of Xinyu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新余 (Xīnyú).

Questions about Xinyu

What does Xinyu mean?
Xinyu means a prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.
What part of speech is Xinyu?
Xinyu is a proper noun.

Words near Xinyu in the dictionary

  1. Xinyang
  2. Xinye
  3. Xinyi
  4. Xinying
  5. Xinyizhou
  6. Xinyu
  7. Xinzheng
  8. Xinzhou
  9. Xinzhu
  10. Xinzhuang
  11. xiong

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