xing

cross·ing
X8I1N1G2
/ˈkɹɒs.ɪŋ//ʃɪŋ/

proper noun

A surname.

“Railroad xing 200 feet ahead.”

Less commonScrabble 12

Meanings

xing1

nounxing (plural xings)

plural xings · alternative x-ing · alternative Xing · alternative X-ing

  1. USabbreviationAbbreviation of crossing or pedestrian crossing.

    Railroad xing 200 feet ahead.

Xing2

nounXing (plural Xings)

plural Xings

  1. Alternative letter-case form of xing.

Xing3

proper nounXing (plural Xings)

plural Xings

Xing4

proper noun
  1. A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.

    Last summer, Mupona and more than 10 African youths came to Xingxian County, Shanxi Province to explore the magic code of poverty alleviation in this former national poverty-stricken county.

    2022 March 13, “China Focus: Foreign students see opportunities through China's "two sessions"”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2022
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    But Liu Xianglun (later a political affairs counselor to Belgium), who was also at the Central Social Department at the same time Ye Chengzhang was there and who escorted Wang to Xing County, Shanxi Province, remembers that Wang protested both during the trial and on the way to Xing County that he was not a Trotskyite.

    1994, Dai Qing, Wang Shiwei and "Wild Lilies": Rectification and Purges in the Chinese Communist Party, 1942-1944, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57

    Police in the central Chinese province of Shanxi have detained a 27-year-old man accused of killing at least seven people, four of them by driving into a group of pedestrians and cars. Authorities in the city of Luliang said on Sunday that the suspect, identified only by his surname Guo, allegedly went to the home of a 21-year-old married woman in Xing county at around 2pm on Saturday, killing her husband, son and mother-in-law.

    2023 May 14, Minnie Chan, “Chinese police detain suspect after 7 dead in home and car attacks”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 14 May 2023, Politics

Xing5

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of X

XING6

nounXING (plural XINGs)

plural XINGs

  1. Alternative letter-case form of xing.

Origin

xing · noun

From x- as short for cross- in crossing.

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Xing · noun

From x- as short for cross- in crossing.

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Xing · proper noun

  1. Mandarin邢
  2. EnglishXing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邢 (Xíng).

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Xing · proper noun

  1. Mandarin興 /兴
  2. EnglishXing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興 /兴 (Xīng).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 興 /兴
  • 興 /兴 (Xīng)county

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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