Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

xihe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Xi-he
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

a solar deity in Chinese mythology

name

A town in Xiaonan district, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.

name

A county of Longnan, Gansu, China.

name

A district of Fuxin, Liaoning, China.

Example Sentences

"BRIEFS NORTHWEST REGION KANSU COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS WORK -- Some 80 staffers and workers of the Hsiho County Posts and Telecommunications Bureau have readjusted the postroads in the county three times."
"Conflicting or multiple locations are given for Qiu Pool. Probably the one Du Fu was thinking of was atop Qiu Pool Mountain 仇池山 in modern Xihe County 西和縣, Gansu."
"In the second grade classroom of Shili Zhongxin Primary School, Xihe County, Gansu Province, 8-year-old Ren Xiang always comes early for morning reading.[…] The Wenchuan quake of 2008 damaged or destroyed 334 schools and kindergartens in Xihe County."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 羲和 (Xīhé).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 羲和, 西河, 西和, 細河

Inflected Forms

Siho (alternative) Hsi-ho (alternative)

Questions

What does xihe mean?: a solar deity in Chinese mythology
Where does xihe come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 羲和 (Xīhé).

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