Etymology

Shihezi

Shi·he·zi
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Today it means: A county-level city in northern Xinjiang autonomous region, China. Full definition →

Mandarin 石河子
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from石河子
  2. English todayShihezi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石河子 (Shíhézǐ, literally “stone river”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.