Hechi
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河池 (Héchí).
Pronunciation
- enPR: hŭʹchûʹ[1]
Proper noun
Hechi
- A prefecture-level city of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
- [1973 July 2 [1973 June 29], “Kwangsi Region Nationalities”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 127, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Nanning Kwangsi Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page D 10:
- Over the past 2 years or so, Hochih Region has cultivated about 15,500 new minority-nationality party members, 95 percent of the total number of new party members there.]
- 2012 February 4, Andrew Jacobs, “China Fires 7 Officials After Spill”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 February 2012, Asia Pacific[3]:
- During a news conference in Hechi on Friday, officials said that 90,000 pounds of fish and more than a million fry had been killed and that several hundred villagers downstream had consumed river water for five days before they were notified about the dangers.
Translations
prefecture-level city
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hochih or Ho-ch’ih”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 790, column 3
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hechi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1258, column 3