Xiang

//ʃiɑŋ// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Chinese language spoken mainly in Hunan province, China
  2. 2
    A surname from Chinese.

Synonyms

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hunanesehunanese

Example

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"Xiang was a big-faced affable Mandarin-speaker at my software workplace on top of Burnaby Mountain. Our team used the Smalltalk programming language."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 湘 (Xiāng).

Etymology 2

From several Mandarin surnames, including 項／项 (Xiàng), 向 (Xiàng) and 相 (Xiāng).

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