Hechi
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河池 (Héchí).
Proper noun
Hechi
- A prefecture-level city in Guangxi, China
- [1946, Powell, Lyle Stephenson, “The Border Fences”, in A Surgeon In Wartime China, Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, →OCLC, page 172:
- Shortly after arriving at Kweiyang our intelligence agents informed us that the Japs were actually receding from their recently acquired positions in the corridor and would probably occupy a holding position near the town of Hochih.]
- 2012 February 4, Jacobs, Andrew, “China Fires 7 Officials After Spill”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 February 2012, Asia Pacific:
- During a news conference in Hechi on Friday, officials said that 90,000 pounds of fish and more than a million fry had been killed and that several hundred villagers downstream had consumed river water for five days before they were notified about the dangers.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hechi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1258, column 3
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