Weishi

See also: wēishì, wěishí, wěishǐ, wèishí, wèishǐ, and wèishì

English

Alternative forms

• Weishih (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 尉氏.

Proper noun

Weishi

1. A county of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
   • 1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today‎^[1], Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:

     Similarly, Weishi county, also in eastern Henan, has 90,000 mou of such plantations, all sources of useful income in the several communes where they are located.

   • 2018 June 21, Jiaquan Zhou, “‘Drunk driver’ arrested after four children killed in car crash in China”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-21, Society‎^[3]:

     The crash occurred in Weishi county, Henan province, on a newly upgraded road that had not been opened, witnesses were quoted as saying.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尉氏 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Weishi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3431, column 3
• Weishi, Wei-shih, Weishih at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.