Xishui
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Etymology 1
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 浠水 (Xīshuǐ).
Proper noun
Xishui
- A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
- 2018 November 15, Dominique Patton, “China confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Hubei province”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 08 September 2024, World:
- China's agricultural ministry said on Thursday it had confirmed a new African swine fever outbreak near the city of Huangguang in the central province of Hubei.
The outbreak occurred on a farm of 636 pigs in Xishui county, it said, adding that 13 had already died and a further 24 were sick.
- 2020 January 31, Dake Kang, “The shunned: People from virus-hit city tracked, quarantined”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-02-15:
- So he went to the hospital and got checked. Doctors determined it was a common cold, not the new coronavirus, he says, and he returned home. Then a week ago, he says, five officers showed up at his house in Xishui County, a two hour drive from Wuhan. They wore masks and wielded blue, gun-shaped thermometers.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xishui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 1
Etymology 2
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 習水／习水 (Xíshuǐ).
Proper noun
Xishui