Weihui

Weihui

See also: wěihuì

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 衛輝／卫辉 (Wèihuī).

Proper noun

Weihui

1. A county-level city in Xinxiang, Henan, China.
   • 1901, Bigham, Clive, A Year in China, 1899-1900‎, London: Macmillan and Co, Ltd., OCLC 66235994, OL 13584417M, page 35:

     In two days we came to Weihui, and the land part of the journey was now over.

   • 1930, Lynn, Jermyn Chi-hung, “The Mukden Party”, in Political Parties in China‎, published 1975, →ISBN, LCCN 75-42523, OCLC 1006455620, page 205:

     On February 28 Marshal Chang Hsiao-liang went to Weihui to direct his men in crossing the Yellow River.

   • 2008 November 12, “Scandal in China: soldiers work for butchery”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 19 September 2021:

     This strange procession marched through the streets of Weihui, a town in Henan, central China, on November 4. A donkey meat-seller engaged four men to walk down the main street, past the social security office, dressed as "devils" - the Japanese soldiers that occupied China in the Second World War.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Weihui.

Translations

county-level city

Chinese: Mandarin: 衛輝 (zh), 卫辉 (zh) (Wèihuī) Japanese: please add this translation if you can