Meanings
alternative Wenhsi
- A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
I arrived at the P’ei village in Wen-hsi county. I paid my respects at the shrine to the Duke of Chin (i.e. P’ei Tu, 764-839) and inquired after his descendants. There were still one or two hundred men who left their plowing to come and pay their respects together.
[1973, Denis Twitchett, quoting Ku Yen-wu, “The Composition of the T’ang Ruling Class: New Evidence from Tunhuang”, in Arthur F. Wright, Denis Twitchett, editors, Perspectives on the T’ang (Asian Studies), Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 521 more example
Li Haicang was the richest and most powerful man around. His company, Haixin Steel, accounts for two-thirds of the economic activity in Wenxi, a county of 340,000 people. Mr. Li paid wages, bought land, built roads and schools and, when people were unhappy, took blame.[…] Wenxi County and the nearby city of Yuncheng have dispatched experts to figure out how to run Haixin, which was closely held by Mr. Li, his family and his business partners.
2003 February 1, Joseph Kahn, “In China, Quick Rise And Death Of a Tycoon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World
Origin
- Mandarin聞喜 /闻喜
- EnglishWenxi
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 聞喜 /闻喜 (Wénxǐ).
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Chinese Cantonese 聞喜 /闻喜
- 聞喜 /闻喜county
Chinese Mandarin 聞喜 /闻喜
- 聞喜 /闻喜 (Wénxǐ)county
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