Xunyi

See also: xúnyì

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 旬邑.

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Xunyi

  1. A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
    • [1971, Wilson, Dick, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 227:
      At the end of 1927 the Communists were "purged" from the Kuomintang, and although in 1928 a short-lived soviet government had been proclaimed at Hsunyi, it was crushed by General Feng Yu-hsiang's pro-Nanking troops.]
    • 2010, Bi, Yanli (毕艳莉), Qin Dan (秦丹), transl., Tales from the Hundreds Surnames (Tales from China's Classic Essential Readings), Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:
      Nowadays, there are still some people surnamed Diwu in China, and most of them lived in a village in Xunyi County, Shaanxi Province.

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