weihuiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Mandarin 衛輝 / 卫辉 (Wèihuī).

発音

• enPR: wāʹhwāʹ
• ハイフネーション: Wei‧hui

固有名詞

Weihui

1. A county-level city of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
   • 1901, Clive Bigham, A Year in China, 1899-1900‎, London: Macmillan and Co, Ltd., →OCLC, →OL, page 35:

     In two days we came to Weihui, and the land part of the journey was now over.

   • 1930, Jermyn Chi-hung Lynn, “The Mukden Party”, in Political Parties in China‎, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 205:

     On February 28 Marshal Chang Hsiao-liang went to Weihui to direct his men in crossing the Yellow River.

   • 2008 November 12, “Scandal in China: soldiers work for butchery”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 19 September 2021:

     This strange procession marched through the streets of Weihui, a town in Henan, central China, on November 4. A donkey meat-seller engaged four men to walk down the main street, past the social security office, dressed as "devils" - the Japanese soldiers that occupied China in the Second World War.

   • 2021 July 22, Pei Lin Wu, Rebecca Tan, “Death toll in China floods climbs to 33 as rains spread and more cities call for help”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 July 2021, Asia‎:

     “Please pay attention to Xinxiang, Weihui and Anyang,” one user pleaded on the microblogging site Weibo. “Villages are being drowned; mudslides are starting and there are already too many people in need of help at collapsed roads.”
     “In the small city of Weihui, it’s been raining for three days already,” said another user. “Some villages have been relying entirely on local residents without any outside support!”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Weihui.

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chihsien”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 393, column 1: “[…] called Weihwei until 1913, […]”
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Weihui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3430, column 2
• “Weihui, Wei-hui”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer