Hebi
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鶴壁 / 鹤壁 (Hèbì).
Proper noun
Hebi
- A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
- 2014 October 23, Simon Denyer, “China bars AIDS activist from traveling despite talk of ending discrimination”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 October 2014, Asia & Pacific:
- But she said authorities in her native Henan province seized her passport this week, visited her home several times and told her not to leave the city of Hebi, where she lives. Officials also told her to inform her hosts that she is “too sick to attend” the meeting, she said.
- 2023 June 16, Liangping Gao, Marius Zaharia, “Cheap 'like cabbage' apartments in some Chinese cities draw buyers, and caution”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING/HONG KONG, archived from the original on June 16, 2023, China:
- Beijing resident Hu Yongwei bought more than a dozen apartments in the small central Chinese city of Hebi for about $31,000 in all, betting they will be financially more rewarding than other investments.
Synonyms
Translations
prefecture-level city in central China
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hebi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1257, column 3
Alemannic German
Etymology
From Old High German hevo, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjō. Cognate with German Hefe, Dutch hef.
Noun
Hebi n
References
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) , Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 49.