Xunyi

See also: xúnyì

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 旬邑.

Proper noun

Xunyi

1. A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival‎^[1], New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 227:

     At the end of 1927 the Communists were "purged" from the Kuomintang, and although in 1928 a short-lived soviet government had been proclaimed at Hsunyi, it was crushed by General Feng Yu-hsiang's pro-Nanking troops.]

   • 2003 February 5, Mark O'Neill, “Beijing urges public support for car project”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-04‎^[3]:

     Xia Zhanyi, Communist Party chief of Xunyi county - where the factory is located, called on all citizens to support the project and help it reach the sales goal, more than 10 times the planned 45,000 target for this year, the Beijing Daily said.

   • 2010, Bi Yanli [毕艳莉], translated by Qin Dan [秦丹], Tales from the Hundreds Surnames (Tales from China's Classic Essential Readings)‎^[4], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:

     Nowadays, there are still some people surnamed Diwu in China, and most of them lived in a village in Xunyi County, Shaanxi Province.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旬邑 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xunyi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3506, column 1

Anagrams

• Unixy, Yunxi