Hechi

Hechi

See also: hēchì, hèchì, and Héchí

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation for 河池 (Héchí).

Proper noun

Hechi

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangxi, China
   • [1946, Powell, Lyle Stephenson, “The Border Fences”, in A Surgeon In Wartime China‎, Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, OCLC 2181847, page 172:

     Shortly after arriving at Kweiyang our intelligence agents informed us that the Japs were actually receding from their recently acquired positions in the corridor and would probably occupy a holding position near the town of Hochih.]

Translations

prefecture-level city

Chinese: Mandarin: 河池 (zh) (Héchí) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hechi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1258, column 3