Xinhui

Xin·hui
X8I1N1H4U1I1

proper noun

A district of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China.

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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Hsin-hui

  1. A district of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China.

    A number of Jiangmen's townships have become highly concentrated production areas. For instance, in 2001, Siqian, in Jiangmen's southern city of Xinhui, produced 80 percent of its industrial value from metal kitchen products.

    2003 April, Michael Enright, Edith Scott, “Jiangmen”, in The Greater Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong: Invest Hong Kong, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 101
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    Hsinhui is one of the four famous counties in Kwangtung Province, where the great bulk of Overseas Chinese in North and South America originally came from.[…]Because of its picturesque landscape with one of the oldest banyan trees in existence, Hsinhui county has become one of the eight most scenic resorts in Kwangtung Province, which included the visits of Chou En-lai and Yeh Chien-ying.

    [1973, T. K. Cheung, “My First Encounter and a Political Debate”, in Ex-CIA Man: In and Out of China, Hong Kong: Asian Research Service, →OCLC, page 23

    The smell of tangerines wafts across Jiangmen’s Xinhui district on a late autumn day, as it has done for centuries. But ambitious urbanisation plans for the city on the west bank of the Pearl River, part of the Chinese government’s “Greater Bay Area” drive, mean it may not do so for much longer.

    2017 November 19, Huifeng He, “Pearl River Delta’s poorer cities plan big changes in ‘Greater Bay Area’ push”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2017, Policies & Politics

    Synonyms: Sunwui

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA district of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China.

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Origin

  1. Mandarin新會 /新会
  2. EnglishXinhui

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新會 /新会 (Xīnhuì).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 新會 /新会
  • 新會 /新会 (san¹ wui⁶)district of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
Chinese Mandarin 新會 /新会
  • 新會 /新会 (Xīnhuì)district of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
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Xinhui. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xinhui

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

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