Hechi

See also: hēchì, hèchì, and Héchí

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河池 (Héchí).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hŭʹchûʹ[1]

Proper noun

Hechi

  1. 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

References

  1. ^ 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

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