Meanings
alternative Li-shih
- A district of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Lishi District 离石区 in Lüliang and Xiaodian District 小店区 in Taiyuan had a strikingly high percentage of young population, around 60 percent.
华北地区
2018, Fenggang Yang, “North China [华北地区]”, in Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts, Brill Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90, column 12 more examples
Geomorphologic Features The Lüliang region is located in the western Shanxi Province. Geologist Professor Liu Dongsheng first identified the section drawing of the Lishi Loess in Wangjiagou, Lishi District, LüliangCity.
2016, Fang Wang, “Geo-Architecture Blending into Nature”, in Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context, volume 3, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 133Wu said she was determined to fight the decision. On September 6 she mailed documents for a lawsuit of the public security authorities in both Jiaocheng county and Luliang city to a local court in the Lishi district of Luliang.
2017 September 13, Xinqi Su, Viola Zhou, “One of China’s ‘feminist five’ gender equality activists banned from leaving country for decade”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2017
Origin
- Mandarin離石 /离石
- EnglishLishi
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 離石 /离石 (Líshí).
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Chinese Cantonese 離石 /离石
- 離石 /离石 (lei⁴ sek⁶)district
Chinese Mandarin 離石 /离石
- 離石 /离石 (Líshí)district
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Lishi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lishi
“Lishi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lishi. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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