Meanings
- A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.
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A fire in a commercial building in southeastern China killed at least 39 people on Wednesday, as emergency workers raced to rescue people still trapped inside. The fire broke out around 3:30 p.m. local time in Xinyu, a city in Jiangxi Province, in the basement of a building that housed an internet cafe on the ground floor and an educational center upstairs, according to Chinese state media and a local government announcement.
2024 January 24, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Li You, Chris Buckley, Siyi Zhao, “Building Fire in China Kills at Least 39, With Others Trapped”, in The New York Times, sourced from Beijing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2024, Asia Pacific
Origin
- Mandarin新余
- EnglishXinyu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新余 (Xīnyú).
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Chinese Cantonese 新余
- 新余 (san¹ jyu⁴)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 新余
- 新余 (Xīnyú)prefecture-level city
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Cite this entry
Xinyu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xinyu
“Xinyu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xinyu. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Xinyu,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xinyu.
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