Siyi

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A geographic region consisting of the four former counties of Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping, and Enping, collectively; now a part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.

    "Aside from these two deltas, other densely-populated areas are the southern Mu-ming Plain in western Kwangtung and Ssu-i (including Hsin-hui, Kai-ping, Tai-shan, and En-ping) where the population density per square kilometer averages 300."

  2. 2
    A dialect of Cantonese Chinese mainly spoken in Jiangmen.

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 四邑 (Sìyì).

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