Siyi

alternative Ssu-i

1. A geographic region consisting of the four former counties of Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping, and Enping, collectively; now a part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.

   Report by village enumerates death and property losses in the Siyi region resulting from the Japanese invasion which began on 3 March 1941.

   1986, Him Mark Lai, A History Reclaimed: An Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Language Materials on the Chinese of America, University of California, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4

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   Aside from these two deltas, other densely-populated areas are the southern Mu-ming Plain in western Kwangtung and Ssu-i (including Hsin-hui, Kai-ping, Tai-shan, and En-ping) where the population density per square kilometer averages 300.

   Economic Geography of Kwangtung

   [1956, Jen-ts'ai (梁仁采) Liang, 广东经济地理 [Economic Geography of Kwangtung], Peiping, →OCLC, pages 15–16

   People in the Ssu-i (the four counties — T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, En-p'ing), for example, though not far from Canton, have their own distinct dialect, which is scarcely intelligible to an ordinary Cantonese.

   [1969, Ezra Vogel, Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24

   Experts say up to 80 percent of the Chinese in North America came from the so called “Say-yat” region in the Pearl River Delta -- a group of four districts including Kaiping and Taishan.

   [2007 June 28, James Pomfret, “Chinese diaspora villages made World Heritage site”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2023, SCIENCE & SPACE

2. A dialect of Cantonese Chinese mainly spoken in Jiangmen.

   Synonyms: Sze Yap