Huizhou

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A group of varieties of Chinese spoken in and around the region of Huizhou. uncountable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A prefecture-level city in southeastern Guangdong, China.

    "Whenever Ch'en Chiung-ming, still at large in the East River uplands, would move on Canton, Liu and Yang would requisition from Sun a sum of 10,000 silver yuan* for the defense of Canton, or C$100,000 to force Ch'en back up the East River to Huichou."

  2. 2
    A region in modern-day Anhui, in southeastern China. historical

    "Xidi, a village in China’s Huizhou region of Anhui Province, dates back to the Ming and Qing dynasties."

Example

More examples

"Whenever Ch'en Chiung-ming, still at large in the East River uplands, would move on Canton, Liu and Yang would requisition from Sun a sum of 10,000 silver yuan* for the defense of Canton, or C$100,000 to force Ch'en back up the East River to Huichou."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 惠州 (Huìzhōu).

Etymology 2

c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 徽州 (Huīzhōu).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.