Zhuxi
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 竹溪／竹谿 (Zhúxī).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Zhuxi
- A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
- , Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 97–98, 408:
- In Wu-feng hsien “the marriage contract of a pan-tzu pan-hsü only stipulates that the son-in-law is "to support his parents-in-law while they live and to bury them when they die. It does not specify the number of years he is to remain with the family." But in Chu-ch’i hsien, Ma-ch’eng hsien, and Hsing-shan hsien, "the agreement specifies how long he is to remain with his parents-in-law or notes that he cannot return home until they die."
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- 1988 July 20, “Heat wave, worst drought hit China”, in Arab Times, number 7305, →OCLC, page 3:
- Zhuxi county in Hubei province was suffering its worst prolonged drought for 111 years, he said.
- 2010, Hong De-Yuan, Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 92:
- To date, Paeonia giui has been found in only four localities. Three of the four remaining populations were found on cliffs and comprised only a few individuals. It is surely the most endangered species in Paeonia, on the verge of extinction, and therefore effective measures must be undertaken urgently to conserve the species. Prof. LI Zhen-Yu informed me recently that he saw this species with certainty in Zhuxi County of Hubei Province.
- 2010 December 30, Eric Dash, “Year-End Investor Letter: A Wall St. Parody”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-23:
- I have appropriated thirty-seven Chinese nationals from a Scandium Mine in Longba Town, Zhuxi Country, China, that have secured and transported my gadolinite, promethium, cerium and yttrium and other rare earth minerals holdings. As many of you are aware, I recently acquired these minerals, as well as the laborers, on a recent site visit to a rare earth mining facility in the P.B.O.C.
- A town in Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.
Synonyms
Translations
county in central China; town in western China
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhuxi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3566, column 2