Xujiahui
Syllables: Xu·jia·hui
Xujiahui proper noun: an area of Xuhui district, Shanghai, China, well-known for shopping and entertainment.
Proper noun
Xujiahui
- An area of Xuhui district, Shanghai, China, well-known for shopping and entertainment.
- The factory we went to see was out in the Hsuchiahui (Siccawei, in Shanghai dialect) district, and was called the Deaf and Mute Workers' Electrical Appliance Factory No. 2.[1973, Rewi Alley, “Shanghai”, in 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 76
- Early on the morning of the eighteenth the Taipings occupied the historic town of Hsu-chia-hui, or Siccawei, just west of the port, where Jesuit missionaries had long before established an important Catholic community.[1992, Caleb Carr, “"Not As Was Hoped, Dead..."”, in The Devil Soldier: The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 126
- A subdistrict of Xuhui district, Shanghai, China, consisting of the central part of the larger neighborhood.
Synonyms of Xujiahui
Forms of Xujiahui
| alternative form | Hsu-chia-hui |
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Origin of Xujiahui
The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 徐家匯／徐家汇 (Xújiāhuì, literally “Xu Family Confluence”) in reference to the prominence of the Xu family in the area during the Ming dynasty and the previous junction of several streams and canals in the area.
Questions about Xujiahui
- What does Xujiahui mean?
- Xujiahui means an area of Xuhui district, Shanghai, China, well-known for shopping and entertainment.
- What part of speech is Xujiahui?
- Xujiahui is a proper noun.
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