Meanings
- obsoleteSynonym of Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
The factory we went to see was out in the Hsuchiahui (Siccawei, in Shanghai dialect) district, and was called the Deaf and Mute Workers' Electrical Appliance Factory No. 2.
Travels in China, 1966-71
1973, Rewi Alley, “Shanghai”, in 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 761 more example
Early on the morning of the eighteenth the Taipings occupied the historic town of Hsu-chia-hui, or Siccawei, just west of the port, where Jesuit missionaries had long before established an important Catholic community.
1992, Caleb Carr, “"Not As Was Hoped, Dead..."”, in The Devil Soldier: The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 126Synonyms: Xujiahui
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
proper nounSynonym of Xuhui, the larger district of Shanghai, China, surrounding Xujiahui.
Origin
- Chinese徐家匯 /徐家汇
- EnglishSiccawei
A romanization of the Shanghainese pronunciation of Chinese 徐家匯 /徐家汇 (xxi-ka-hhue).
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