Yunxi

Yun·xi
Y4U1N1X8I1

proper noun

A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Yunsi · alternative Yün-hsi

  1. A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.

    Two more fossil teeth were discovered last year in Pailung (White Dragon) Cave in neighboring Yunhsi county, an upper right second premolar and a lower left first premolar, both very well preserved from root to crown.

    [1977, China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28
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    The revolutionary committee of Yunhsi county, Hupeh, has sent a propaganda team of medical workers to treat the ko ting (0344 3050) disease among peasants in Lion commune located in mountains over 1,000 meters above sea level.

    [1969 June 4 [1969 May 24], “Hupeh Disease”, in Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, volume I, number 107, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 4

    Not far from Yun Xian County, another fossil site was found in Yunxi County, also in Yunyang Prefecture, Hubei Province. Fifteen kilometers east of the county seat of Yunxi is Bailongdong Cave on the eastern slope of Shenwuling Hill.

    1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23

    Zheng Dajing, from Hubei Province, said the detention center he was held in had banners hanging inside its small grounds declaring it a "law education class." But there were no textbooks or lectures in the disused tobacco-buying station in his home county, Yunxi, that he said became his jail for over a year.

    2009 February 9, Chris Buckley, “Growing opposition to China's 'black jails'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2023, Asia Pacific

Origin

  1. Mandarin鄖西 /郧西
  2. EnglishYunxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄖西 /郧西 (Yúnxī).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 鄖西 /郧西
  • 鄖西 /郧西 (wan⁴ sai¹)county in central China
Chinese Mandarin 鄖西 /郧西
  • 鄖西 /郧西 (Yúnxī)county in central China

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