Yuxi

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See also: yuxi, yǔxì, yùxí, and Yùxī

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 玉溪 (Yùxī).

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Yuxi

  1. A prefecture-level city in Yunnan, China.
    • 2001, Gregory Eliyu Guldin, What's a Peasant to Do?: Village becoming Town in Southern China, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 61:
      This turn to tobacco is not surprising, since Eshan lies smack dab in the center of China’s prime tobacco road country; the Yuxi area has long had a name for good smokes. The Hongta Shan brand cigarette factory in Yuxi City is one of the largest enterprises in all of China, paying fully half of Yunnan’s taxes to the central tax bureau and accounting for 40 percent of the province’s own revenues.
    • 2020 May 25, Amy Qin, “Virus Threatens Chinese Traditions of Chopsticks and Family-Style Meals”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-25, Asia Pacific‎:
      For Shu Xiao, 27, a schoolteacher in Yuxi, a city in the southwestern province of Yunnan, group dinners can be discomfiting. Ms. Shu said her family has used serving chopsticks at home since last year, when reports were circulating about a local outbreak of stomach bacteria.
    • 2021 June 2, “Elephant herd wanders toward Chinese city of 7 million”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on June 02, 2021, Asia‎:
      According to the Chinese state-run news agency, Xinhua, the herd on Wednesday was in Yuxi, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Kunming, a city of 7 million people.

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