Siyi

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See also: siyį́

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 四邑 (Sìyì).

Proper noun

Siyi

  1. Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping, and Enping, collectively; four former counties that now are a part of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
    • , Peiping, →OCLC, pages 15–16:
      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.]
    • , Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:
      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.]
    • 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:
      Report by village enumerates death and property losses in the Siyi region resulting from the Japanese invasion which began on 3 March 1941.
    • , archived from the original on 01 March 2023, SCIENCE & SPACE:
      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.]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Siyi.
  2. A dialect of Cantonese Chinese mainly spoken in Jiangmen.

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