Huizhou
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 惠州 (Huìzhōu).
Proper noun
Huizhou
- A prefecture-level city in southeastern Guangdong, China.
- , Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:
- Whenever Ch'en Chiung-ming, still at large in the East River uplands, would move on Canton, Liu and Yang would requisition from Sun a sum of 10,000 silver yuan* for the defense of Canton, or C$100,000 to force Ch'en back up the East River to Huichou.]
Synonyms
- Waichow (Postal Romanization, Cantonese)
Translations
a city of China
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huizhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1330, column 2
Etymology 2
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 徽州 (Huīzhōu).
Proper noun
Huizhou
- (historical) A region in modern-day Anhui, in southeastern China.
- 2012 March 29, Gilles Sabrie, “In Rural China, a Preserved Dynastic Village”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 March 2012:
- Xidi, a village in China’s Huizhou region of Anhui Province, dates back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Translations
Noun
Huizhou (uncountable)
- A group of varieties of Chinese spoken in and around the region of Huizhou.
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References
- ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 479: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Hui-chou (Huizhou) 徽州”