Hsi

plural Hsis · alternative Hanyu Pinyin Xi

1. A surname.

   An excellent example of the Chinese colporteur's zeal and capacity is afforded by Hsi Fuh Ts’ing, who lives at Hwangchow in the province of Hupeh.

   1929, “Along the Road”, in Another Milestone, London: British and Foreign Bible Society, →OCLC, page 67

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   In the course of this ‘Second Anti-Rightist Campaign’ (Erh-tz’u fan-yu), Ch’en Yün’s authority was considerably restricted, and the Vice-Premier and Secretary General of the State Council, Hsi Chung-hsün (member of the CC), was dismissed.

   1973 [1971], Jürgen Domes, “Opposition and 'Readjustment'”, in Rüdiger Machetzki, transl., The Internal Politics of China, 1949–1972, Praeger Publishers, translation of Die Ära Mao Tse-tung (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117

   The ceremony held by civilians including Roger Hsi (習賢德), a professor of journalism at Fu Jen Catholic University, Yang Hua-kun, a younger cousin of Chen, and three former members of the Black Cat Squadron took place at the Air Force’s martyrs tomb in Sindian District (新店), New Taipei City (新北市).[…] Hsi said because Chen did not marry and his direct relatives live in Fuzhou, in China’s Fujian Province, they have been unable to go to Taiwan to apply to the government for compensation and have not received any compensation for his death in 50 years.

   2012 September 10, Rich Chang, “Tribute for pilot on 50th anniversary”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2012, Taiwan News, page 3

alternative Hanyu Pinyin Xi

1. alternativeAlternative form of Xi.

   The hilly topography restricts the cultivated area mainly to the valleys of the Hsi River and of its tributaries in Kuang-hsi and Kuang-tung and the lowlands of T'ai-wan and Hai-nan. Western T'ai-wan and the Hsi River delta have extremely high population densities.

   1958, “China, Agriculture and Food Supply”, in C. K. Leung, Norton Ginsburg, editors, The Pattern of Asia, Edgewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., published 1961, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177

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   Some 2,000 are reported to have escaped to Ichang alone, and finding no way to support themselves in the city, have engaged in group robberies. It was said the plundering of “Ichang Supplying and Sciling Cooperative” freighters traveling on the Hsi River was the work of these youths.

   1977 May 29, “Educated youths make trouble in big cities”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 21, Taipei, →OCLC, page 3

   During World War II (1939–45) and following the Japanese occupation of Burma, the Malay states, and Hong Kong, cholera marched across southern China along different military routes. It arrived in Guangdong along the Xi (Hsi) River and crossed over the Burmese border to infect Yunnan and Guangxi provinces.

   2008, “Chinese Cholera Epidemics of 1937–42”, in George Childs Kohn, editor, Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence: From Ancient Times to the Present, 3rd edition, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 72, column 1

1. USabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Homeland Security Investigations.

   During worksite enforcement actions, HSI officials typically request to see people’s identification to confirm they are authorized to work.

   2025 January 24, Gloria Pazmino, Mark Morales and Chelsea Bailey, “New Jersey mayor says his city was ‘unlawfully terrorized’ by federal agents during immigrant enforcement action at business”, in CNN

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   He said he recently asked HSI to audit how much of their time is spent on work site enforcement, and said he has ordered that to increase “by four to five times.”

   2017 October 17, Tal Kopan, “ICE chief pledges quadrupling or more of workplace crackdowns”, in CNN

plural HSIs

1. USabbreviationinitialismeducationInitialism of Hispanic-serving institution.

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   More than half of America’s Latino undergraduates attend an HSI – that is, a public or private nonprofit college or university with a student body that is at least 25 percent Latino. HSIs, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) serve a higher proportion of low- and middle-income students than their peer institutions, and together they enroll nearly sixty percent of the Nation’s 4.7 million minority undergraduate students. […] Enhancing education opportunities for Hispanics will be vital to achieving this objective, and we will need the continued leadership of HSIs to increase the enrollment, retention and graduation rates of our Hispanic students.

   2011 April 29, “Winning the Future IMPROVING EDUCATION FOR THE LATINO COMMUNITY”, in CNN en Español, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2024, pages 14, 15