Wu Xiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Wu-hsi, Wuhsi (Wade–Giles)

発音

• IPA: /wuːˈʃiː/, enPR: wo͞oʹshēʹ

語源 1

c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 無錫 / 无锡 (Wúxī).

別の表記

• Wusih (Postal Romanization)

固有名詞

Wuxi

1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China.
   • 2008 January 30, Ren Riqing, quotee, “Urban Migrants Stranded in China”, in Deutsche Welle‎, archived from the original on 27 December 2023‎:

     Like most of the women in her village, Ren Riqing looks after children: “This is my nephew. His parents work far away in a factory in Wuxi. It’s not as strenuous as working here in the fields. I have a son and a daughter -- they’re also in Wuxi. If things go well, they come back once in two years. Travel costs money. It makes me sad, but what can I do?”

   • 2015 December 16, Aaron Gregg, “MedImmune expands its footprint in China with new deal”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-12-17, Capital Business‎:

     MedImmune, the Gaithersburg research arm of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, is making aggressive moves to expand its footprint in China.
     The company said Wednesday it plans to spend $50 million on another production facility in Wuxi, a city near Shanghai on China’s east coast.

参照

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuxi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 1
• “Wuxi”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Wuxi, Wu-hsi, Wuhsi, Wusi at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Wuxi, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Wuxi”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Wuxi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Wuxi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.

語源 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 巫溪 (Wūxī).

固有名詞

Wuxi

1. A county of Chongqing, China.
   • 1987 September 7, “Landslide Toll in China Is 65”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-24, World, page 3‎:

     The landslide on Tuesday demolished a five-story apartment building and two private hotels in Wuxi County in Sichuan Province.

別の表記

• Wuki (Postal Romanization)
• Wu-ch'i (Wade–Giles)

参照

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuxi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 2
• Wuxi, Wu-hsi, Wuhsi, Wusi at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.