wenxiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 聞喜／闻喜.

固有名詞

Wenxi

1. A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
   • [1966 March, Alley, Rewi, “Ancient Sites around Houma in Southern Shansi”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[1], volume V, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45:

     In Wenhsi county, south of Houma, there is a village in which lies the remains of a family ancestral temple.]

   • 2003 February 1, Kahn, Joseph, “In China, Quick Rise And Death Of a Tycoon”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, World‎^[3]:

     Li Haicang was the richest and most powerful man around. His company, Haixin Steel, accounts for two-thirds of the economic activity in Wenxi, a county of 340,000 people. Mr. Li paid wages, bought land, built roads and schools and, when people were unhappy, took blame. […]
     Wenxi County and the nearby city of Yuncheng have dispatched experts to figure out how to run Haixin, which was closely held by Mr. Li, his family and his business partners.

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wenxi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3436, column 2
• Wenxi, Wenhsi, Wen-hsi at Google Ngram Viewer