Siyi

See also: siyį́

English

Alternative forms

• Ssu-i (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 四邑 (Sìyì).

Proper noun

Siyi

1. Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping, and Enping, collectively; four former counties that now are a part of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
   • [1956, Jen-ts'ai (梁仁采) Liang, 广东经济地理 [Economic Geography of Kwangtung]‎^[1], Peiping, →OCLC, pages 15–16:

     Aside from these two deltas, other densely-populated areas are the southern Mu-ming Plain in western Kwangtung and Ssu-i (including Hsin-hui, Kai-ping, Tai-shan, and En-ping) where the population density per square kilometer averages 300.]

   • [1969, Ezra Vogel, Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968‎^[2], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:

     People in the Ssu-i (the four counties — T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, En-p'ing), for example, though not far from Canton, have their own distinct dialect, which is scarcely intelligible to an ordinary Cantonese.]

   • 1986, Him Mark Lai, A History Reclaimed: An Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Language Materials on the Chinese of America‎^[3], University of California, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4‎^[4]:

     Report by village enumerates death and property losses in the Siyi region resulting from the Japanese invasion which began on 3 March 1941.

   • [2007 June 28, James Pomfret, “Chinese diaspora villages made World Heritage site”, in Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 01 March 2023, SCIENCE & SPACE:

     Experts say up to 80 percent of the Chinese in North America came from the so called “Say-yat” region in the Pearl River Delta -- a group of four districts including Kaiping and Taishan.]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Siyi.
2. A dialect of Cantonese Chinese mainly spoken in Jiangmen.

Synonyms

• (from Cantonese) Sze Yap, Szeyap, Sz Yap, Sze Yup, Szeyup, Sz Yup, Seiyap, Seiyup, Sz Yip, See Yip, See Yup

Translations

region; dialect

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 四邑 (sei³ jap¹)

  Mandarin: 四邑 (zh) (Sìyì)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Taishanese (a major dialect of Siyi Cantonese)