Xishui

See also: xīshuǐ, Xīshuǐ, and xìshuǐ

English

Alternative forms

• Hsi-shui (Wade–Giles)
• Sishui

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 浠水 (Xīshuǐ).

Proper noun

Xishui

1. A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
   • [1952 March 23 [1952 March 22], “Revolt by 280 Armed Men in Red China Acknowledged”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch‎^[1], volume 104, number 180, St. Louis, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2A, column 6:

     A belated Chinese Communist report disclosed today that a local armed revolt against the Communist government broke out in Hsishui county in Hupei province on Feb. 21 and 22.]

   • [1972, Rewi Alley, “Agriculture and Industry in Two Chinese Hinterland Counties”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XI, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43:

     On the way back to Hsishui County centre, we admired the mass of spring blossom of tung trees, and others.]

   • 2020 January 31, Dake Kang, “The shunned: People from virus-hit city tracked, quarantined”, in AP News‎^[3], archived from the original on 2022-02-15‎^[4]:

     So he went to the hospital and got checked. Doctors determined it was a common cold, not the new coronavirus, he says, and he returned home. Then a week ago, he says, five officers showed up at his house in Xishui County, a two hour drive from Wuhan. They wore masks and wielded blue, gun-shaped thermometers.

Translations

county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浠水 (zh) (Xīshuǐ)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xishui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 1