Weihui

Wei·hui
W4E1I1H4U1I1

proper noun

A county-level city of Xinxiang, Henan, China.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county-level city of Xinxiang, Henan, China.

    In two days we came to Weihui, and the land part of the journey was now over.

    1901, Clive Bigham, A Year in China, 1899-1900, London: Macmillan and Co, Ltd., →OCLC, →OL, page 35
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    On February 28 Marshal Chang Hsiao-liang went to Weihui to direct his men in crossing the Yellow River.

    1930, Jermyn Chi-hung Lynn, “The Mukden Party”, in Political Parties in China, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 205

    This strange procession marched through the streets of Weihui, a town in Henan, central China, on November 4. A donkey meat-seller engaged four men to walk down the main street, past the social security office, dressed as "devils" - the Japanese soldiers that occupied China in the Second World War.

    2008 November 12, “Scandal in China: soldiers work for butchery”, in France 24, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2021

    “Please pay attention to Xinxiang, Weihui and Anyang,” one user pleaded on the microblogging site Weibo. “Villages are being drowned; mudslides are starting and there are already too many people in need of help at collapsed roads.” “In the small city of Weihui, it’s been raining for three days already,” said another user. “Some villages have been relying entirely on local residents without any outside support!”

    2021 July 22, Pei Lin Wu, Rebecca Tan, “Death toll in China floods climbs to 33 as rains spread and more cities call for help”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2021, Asia

Origin

  1. Mandarin衛輝 /卫辉
  2. EnglishWeihui

From Mandarin 衛輝 /卫辉 (Wèihuī).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 衛輝 /卫辉
  • 衛輝 /卫辉 (wai⁶ fai¹)county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 衛輝 /卫辉
  • 衛輝 /卫辉 (Wèihuī)county-level city
Cite this entry
APA

Weihui. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Weihui

MLA

“Weihui.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Weihui. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Weihui,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Weihui.

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