Meanings
- A county-level city of Qianxinan, Guizhou, China.
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Local officials in Xingyi, Guizhou, denied that Mr. Wang’s death was driven by despair over his financial situation and inability to educate his younger children. But there was widespread speculation that it was so, with Mr. Wang having spent the days before his death anxiously asking local officials about the fine, which he couldn’t afford to pay, according to Chinese media reports.
2014 June 16, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Father’s Day Plea to Educate China’s ‘Illegal’ Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2023, Sinosphere
Origin
- Mandarin興義 /兴义
- EnglishXingyi
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 興義 /兴义 (Xīngyì).
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Chinese Cantonese 興義 /兴义
- 興義 /兴义 (hing¹ ji⁶)county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 興義 /兴义
- 興義 /兴义 (Xīngyì)county-level city
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Xingyi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xingyi
“Xingyi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xingyi. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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