See Xi in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "西江"
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}
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"ref": "2011 August 17, Jeff Mason, Chris Buckley, “China, U.S. seek to boost confidence as Biden visits”, in Brian Rhoads, Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-06-29:",
"text": "Vice President Xi (pronounced “Shee”), expected to succeed Hu Jintao as president from early 2013, will inherit responsibility for his nation’s far-reaching and sometimes troublesome relationship with the United States.",
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{
"ref": "2022 November 5, Philip Sherwell, “We don’t think China will invade Taiwan. But if they do we’ll fight them”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-05:",
"text": "Across the water, which is 110 miles wide, is Fujian province, where Xi spent 17 years climbing the political ladder before making the leap to the national stage.",
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"Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (2012–present)."
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},
{
"enpr": "shē"
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{
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{
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},
{
"homophone": "sidhe"
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"ipa": "/t͡ʃiː/",
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}
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"code": "ar",
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"sense": "Chinese surname",
"word": "شِي"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "Chinese surname",
"word": "習"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "zaap⁶",
"sense": "Chinese surname",
"word": "习"
},
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"sense": "Chinese surname",
"word": "習"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Xí",
"sense": "Chinese surname",
"word": "习"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "Chinese surname",
"word": "Hszi"
},
{
"alt": "しゅう",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Shū",
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"word": "習"
},
{
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"word": "シー"
},
{
"alt": "習",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Seup",
"sense": "Chinese surname",
"word": "습"
},
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"code": "ko",
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"lang": "Korean",
"sense": "Chinese surname",
"word": "시"
},
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"sense": "Chinese surname",
"word": "Си"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Chinese surname",
"word": "Şi"
},
{
"alt": "習",
"code": "vi",
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"sense": "Chinese surname",
"word": "Tập"
},
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "Chinese surname",
"word": "Xi"
}
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"ref": "2016, Yanyun Wei, Aiguo Zhang, “The Study on Migration and Poverty Alleviation Planning of Daning County”, in Open Journal of Social Sciences, volume 4, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
"text": "Daning County is located in the south of Luliang Mountain and west of Linfen City in Shanxi Province. Pu County and Xi County are to the east of Daning County,[...]",
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"ref": "2017, Mao Min, The Revival of China, →ISBN, page 158:",
"text": "The 203rd Brigade was blocked by the Red 25th Army, a battalion was wiped out in Xi County, and the battalion commander and more than 200 soldiers were captured.",
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"ref": "2017, “2017 Annual Report”, in CITIC Securities, archived from the original on 2021-06-10:",
"text": "To help the sales of agricultural products is an effective means of poverty alleviation. In 2017, the Company purchased pears from Xi County of Linfen, Shanxi Province twice at a total cost of 1,329,400 yuan; in August 2017, the Company spent RMB260,000 on melon bought from Maigaiti County of Xinjiang;[...]",
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"ref": "2018 October 17, Lan Xue, Jing Zhao, “Truncated Decision Making and Deliberative Implementation: A Time-Based Policy Process Model for Transitional China”, in Policy Studies Journal, volume 48, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:",
"text": "In April,2004, 36 people died in Shanxi’s Xi County coal-mining accident. The provincial governor, Zhang Baoshun (Governor Zhang), having been promoted to his position only two months prior to the accident, was shocked by the chaotic conditions of property rights and the consequential predatory mining activities when he arrived at the scene.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2020, Lu Shunmin, Yang Yao, Chen Kehai, Pathway to Prosperity: China's Poverty Alleviation with a Case Study of Shanxi Province Editorial Board, →ISBN:",
"text": "As the new round of the fight against poverty began, he was assigned to take up the provisional post of deputy chief of Yangtousheng Township, Xi County, Linfen City.",
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},
{
"ref": "2020, Dongdong Yang, Wenqing Wu, “An Analysis on Dust Avoidance Effect of the Building Complex of Small Xitian in Xi County”, in Journal of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, volume 5, number 3, →DOI, page 59:",
"text": "The systematic dust avoidance effect of Small Xitian building complex in Xi county is rare in the history of science and technology at home and abroad, which confirms the scientific nature of the dust avoidance effect of ancient temple buildings in China and plays a reference role in the research on dust avoidance protection of other ancient buildings in China.",
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