Xihu

See also: Xīhú

English

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西湖 (Xī Hú).

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Xihu

  1. A district of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
  2. A rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan.
Translations

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 溪湖 (Xīhú).

Proper noun

Xihu

  1. A district of Benxi, Liaoning, China.
    • 2006, Liu Yu, Pan Wei, Shen Mingming, Song Guojun, Vivian Bertrand, Mary Child, Judith Shapiro, “The Politics and Ethics of Going Green in China: Air Pollution Control in Benxi City and Wetland Preservation in the Sanjiang Plain”, in Joanne Bauer, editor, Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments[1], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51:
      For the small factories, the cleanup of Benxi caused economic hardship including closure or production restrictions. The Xihu District EPB director, Mrs. Gao, talked about their predicament: []
  2. An urban township in Changhua County, Taiwan.
Translations