Meanings
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Xishui.
The Pa-lien Hydro Power Plant in located 13.0 nm northeast of Hsi-shui on the Hsi-shui (River) at coordinates 30 35 50N - 115 26 25E.
1966 July, CHINESE POWER PLANTS HUPEH PROVINCE, Imagery Analysis Division, CIA, page 6 (18/28)3 more examples
The seventh rice mill visited is run by a brigade located in the October People's Commune in Hsi-shui County, Hupei Province. It is an old mill built, it would appear, with local material but adopting all the modern essential equipment.
1969, FAO Agricultural Services Bulletin, numbers 35-40, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24HSIA-pa-ho Village is a small but rich "fish and rice" village located at the confluence of the Pa and the Yangtze rivers outside the Hsi-shui county seat in Hupeh province.
1980, Kai-yu Hsu, Wen I-to, Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21Wen I-to was the eldest son of a renowned scholar family of Hsi-shui County in Hupei Province. At an early age he was trained in the classics by a disciplinarian father, and at then he was sent to Wuchang (a day's trip from Hsi-shui) to study at a modern grade school.
1992, Kirk A. Denton, “WEN I-TO”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839–1976, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 461
Origin
- Mandarin浠水
- EnglishHsi-shui
From Mandarin 浠水 (Xīshuǐ) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-shui³.
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