Xuhui

//ʃuːhweɪ// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A district of Shanghai, China.

    "Because of the pressures exerted, in some areas it was unnecessary for the ch'ü IPPE committees to take any action at all. For example, in Hsühui ch'ü all the firms which the IPPE Committee had intended to inspect came forward and made voluntary confessions, apologizing for their sins."

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"Because of the pressures exerted, in some areas it was unnecessary for the ch'ü IPPE committees to take any action at all. For example, in Hsühui ch'ü all the firms which the IPPE Committee had intended to inspect came forward and made voluntary confessions, apologizing for their sins."

Etymology

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 徐匯 /徐汇 (Xúhuì, literally “Xu Confluence”), a clipping of 徐家匯 /徐家汇 (Xújiāhuì, literally “Xu Family Confluence”) in reference to the prominence of the Xu family in the area during the Ming dynasty and the previous junction of several streams and canals in the district's Xujiahui neighborhood.

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