Shunyi

Shun·yi
S1H4U1N1Y4I1

proper noun

A district of Beijing, China.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A district of Beijing, China.
    3 more examples

    The controversy took off this week after a user of Weibo, a popular Chinese microblog service, accused Mr. Gärtner of insulting Chinese people after a standoff over the parking spot in Shunyi, a district in northeast Beijing where many middle-class foreigners and Chinese live in townhouse communities that rub shoulders with poorer residents who used to be farmers.

    2016 November 22, Chris Buckley, “Daimler Executive Is Removed After Accusations of Insulting Chinese”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2016, Asia Pacific

    Beijing sealed off 10 areas of its northeastern Shunyi district on Tuesday, the first lockdown in the Chinese capital since the last coronavirus outbreak in the months of June and July. The city has reported 16 infections and three asymptomatic cases since Dec. 18, when the first cases were found. Most of the cases were in Shunyi, which has banned couriers from entering residential compounds.

    2020 December 29, Colin Qian, Ryan Woo, “China's capital locks down part of district in coronavirus fight”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2022, Health

    China's capital city Beijing has entered "emergency" mode after seven cases of coronavirus were found. Some villages in Shunyi District have been completely sealed off. While the number of infections appears small, before last week the city of over 21 million had not logged a local case of COVID-19 in 152 days.

    2020 December 29, “Coronavirus digest: UK sets another daily record”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2020, News

Origin

  1. Mandarin順義 /顺义
  2. EnglishShunyi

From Mandarin 順義 /顺义 (Shùnyì).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 順義 /顺义
  • 順義 /顺义 (seon⁶ ji⁶)district
Chinese Mandarin 順義 /顺义
  • 順義 /顺义 (Shùnyì)district
Cite this entry
APA

Shunyi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shunyi

MLA

“Shunyi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shunyi. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Shunyi,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shunyi.

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