Meanings
- A county-level city of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
From the city of Xinxiang, get a bus to Huixian, then switch to a Nanping-bound bus.
2016, Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, Ella Morton, “East Asia”, in Atlas Obscura, New York: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150, column 22 more examples
“The most, most crucial thing is that we don’t have food at the moment. We haven’t eaten since the morning,” said Li Xiqin, chief of the Gongji Hospital of Huixian city, where flooding has left her stranded on the hospital premises with 380 nursing home residents, 150 patients and 150 staff members.[...]On Wednesday, Xinxiang, a city of 5 million that includes Huixian, reported a two-hour rainfall rivaling the deluge in Zhengzhou, local news outlets reported.
2021 July 22, Pei Lin Wu, Rebecca Tan, “Death toll in China floods climbs to at least 33 as rains spread and more cities call for help”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2021Born in 2005 in Huixian City of central Henan province, Liu, whose nickname is B-Girl 671, is one of the country’s young, hungry talents, and sits in the higher echelon of the female breakdancing world.
2024 August 8, Meredith Chen, “Liu Qingyi: China’s breaking prodigy aiming to make more history at Paris Olympics”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2024, Paris Olympics 2024
Origin
- Mandarin輝縣 /辉县
- EnglishHuixian
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 輝縣 /辉县 (Huīxiàn).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 輝縣 /辉县
- 輝縣 /辉县 (fai¹ jyun⁶)county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 輝縣 /辉县
- 輝縣 /辉县 (Huīxiàn)county-level city
Cite this entry
Huixian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Huixian
“Huixian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Huixian. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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