Huizhou

• Hui-chou (Wade–Giles)

Borrowed c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin^[1] romanization of the Mandarin 惠州 (Huìzhōu).

Huizhou

1. A prefecture-level city in southeastern Guangdong, China.
   • [1976, Donald A. Jordan, “Building the Model”, in The Northern Expedition: China's National Revolution of 1926-1928‎^[4], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:

     Whenever Ch'en Chiung-ming, still at large in the East River uplands, would move on Canton, Liu and Yang would requisition from Sun a sum of 10,000 silver yuan* for the defense of Canton, or C$100,000 to force Ch'en back up the East River to Huichou.]

• Waichow (Postal Romanization, Cantonese)

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huizhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1330, column 2

c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin^[1][2] romanization of the Mandarin 徽州 (Huīzhōu).

Huizhou

1. (historical) A region in modern-day Anhui, in southeastern China.
   • 2012 March 29, Gilles Sabrie, “In Rural China, a Preserved Dynastic Village”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 March 2012‎^[7]:

     Xidi, a village in China’s Huizhou region of Anhui Province, dates back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Huizhou (uncountable)

1. A group of varieties of Chinese spoken in and around the region of Huizhou.