Lishui

Li·shui
L1I1S1H4U1I1

proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, China.

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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Li-shui

  1. A prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, China.

    The night of April 18, 1942, was dark and drizzly. The Canadian fathers in Lishui, Chekiang, rose from their meal and turned on their radio: through the static from London came word that Tokyo announced enemy planes had bombed Japan.

    1945, Mark Tennien, “. . . Escape from Lishui”, in Chungking Listening Post, New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., →OCLC, page 31
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    In a United Press despatch appearing in the Toronto papers about the middle of February it was stated that the Japanese had bombed an airdrome in Lishui, Chekiang, the headquarters of many Canadian Catholic missionaries. Apart from that despatch, no intimation has come to us at the seminary that trouble has developed in Lishui.

    1938 March, “News from China”, in China Magazine, volume XIX, number 3, page 40

    Ji Wenhua was sentenced to death on Monday by Lishui intermediate court in Zhejiang for illegally raising 5.5 billion yuan ($867 million) between 2003 and 2008, the South China Morning Post reported. He was also separately accused of fraud worth some 1.47 billion yuan ($231.6 million).

    2011 November 8, James Pomfret, “China property developer sentenced to death-report”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 May 2022

Origin

  1. Mandarin麗水 /丽水
  2. EnglishLishui

From Mandarin 麗水 /丽水.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 麗水 /丽水
  • 麗水 /丽水 (lai⁶ seoi²)prefecture-level city in China
Chinese Mandarin 麗水 /丽水
  • 麗水 /丽水 (Líshuǐ, Lìshuǐ)prefecture-level city in China
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APA

Lishui. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lishui

MLA

“Lishui.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lishui. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Lishui,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lishui.

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