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Zhuxi

Syllables: Zhu·xi/ˌd͡ʒuːˈʃiː/

Zhuxi proper noun: a county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

Zhuxi

  1. A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
    • For instance, the Chuhsi County people's armed forces department sent six propaganda groups to propagate the joyous news of the Ninth Party Congress throughout the county's eight districts and 138 production brigades.[1970 February 4 [1970 February 2], “Hupeh PLA Personnel Score Great Successes in 1969”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 24, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from...
    • In Wu-feng hsien “the marriage contract of a pan-tzu pan-hsü only stipulates that the son-in-law is "to support his parents-in-law while they live and to bury them when they die. It does not specify the number of years he is to remain with the family." But in Chu-ch’i hsien, Ma-ch’eng hsien, and...[1980, Arthur P. Wolf, Chieh-shan Huang, Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 97–98, 408
  2. A town in Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.

Examples of Zhuxi in a sentence

  • Zhuxi county in Hubei province was suffering its worst prolonged drought for 111 years, he said.1988 July 20, “Heat wave, worst drought hit China”, in Arab Times, number 7305, →OCLC, page 3:
  • LI Zhen-Yu informed me recently that he saw this species with certainty in Zhuxi County of Hubei Province.2010, Hong De-Yuan, Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 92:

Synonyms of Zhuxi

  • Chuki
  • Chu-ch'i

Forms of Zhuxi

alternative formChu-hsi

Origin of Zhuxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 竹溪 /竹谿 (Zhúxī).

Questions about Zhuxi

What does Zhuxi mean?
Zhuxi means a county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
How do you use Zhuxi in a sentence?
Zhuxi county in Hubei province was suffering its worst prolonged drought for 111 years, he said.
What part of speech is Zhuxi?
Zhuxi is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Zhuxi?
Zhuxi is pronounced /ˌd͡ʒuːˈʃiː/.

Words near Zhuxi in the dictionary

  1. zhush
  2. Zhushan
  3. zhushed
  4. zhushes
  5. zhushing
  6. Zhuxi
  7. Zhuyin
  8. Zhuyin alphabet
  9. Zhuyin alphabets
  10. Zhuyin fuhao
  11. zhuz

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