Xinhui

See also: Xīnhuì

English

Alternative forms

• Hsin-hui (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新會／新会 (Xīnhuì).

Proper noun

Xinhui

1. A district of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China.
   • [1973, T. K. Cheung, “My First Encounter and a Political Debate”, in Ex-CIA Man: In and Out of China‎^[1], Hong Kong: Asian Research Service, →OCLC, page 23:

     Hsinhui is one of the four famous counties in Kwangtung Province, where the great bulk of Overseas Chinese in North and South America originally came from. […] Because of its picturesque landscape with one of the oldest banyan trees in existence, Hsinhui county has become one of the eight most scenic resorts in Kwangtung Province, which included the visits of Chou En-lai and Yeh Chien-ying.]

   • 2003 April, Michael Enright, Edith Scott, “Jiangmen”, in The Greater Pearl River Delta‎^[2], Hong Kong: Invest Hong Kong, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 101:

     A number of Jiangmen's townships have become highly concentrated production areas. For instance, in 2001, Siqian, in Jiangmen's southern city of Xinhui, produced 80 percent of its industrial value from metal kitchen products.

   • 2017 November 19, Huifeng He, “Pearl River Delta’s poorer cities plan big changes in ‘Greater Bay Area’ push”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-19, Policies & Politics‎^[4]:

     The smell of tangerines wafts across Jiangmen’s Xinhui district on a late autumn day, as it has done for centuries.
     But ambitious urbanisation plans for the city on the west bank of the Pearl River, part of the Chinese government’s “Greater Bay Area” drive, mean it may not do so for much longer.

Synonyms

• (from Cantonese) Sunwui

Translations

district of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 新會／新会 (san¹ wui⁶)

  Mandarin: 新會／新会 (zh) (Xīnhuì)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xinhui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3503, column 3