Xing

See also: xing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪŋ/

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Xing (plural Xings)

1. A surname.

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興／兴 (Xīng).

Proper noun

Xing

1. A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
   • 1994, Dai Qing, Wang Shiwei and "Wild Lilies": Rectification and Purges in the Chinese Communist Party, 1942-1944‎^[1], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:

     But Liu Xianglun (later a political affairs counselor to Belgium), who was also at the Central Social Department at the same time Ye Chengzhang was there and who escorted Wang to Xing County, Shanxi Province, remembers that Wang protested both during the trial and on the way to Xing County that he was not a Trotskyite.

   • 2022 March 13, “China Focus: Foreign students see opportunities through China's "two sessions"”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[2], archived from the original on 13 March 2022:

     Last summer, Mupona and more than 10 African youths came to Xingxian County, Shanxi Province to explore the magic code of poverty alleviation in this former national poverty-stricken county.

   • 2023 May 14, Minnie Chan, “Chinese police detain suspect after 7 dead in home and car attacks”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], archived from the original on 14 May 2023, Politics‎^[4]:

     Police in the central Chinese province of Shanxi have detained a 27-year-old man accused of killing at least seven people, four of them by driving into a group of pedestrians and cars.
     Authorities in the city of Luliang said on Sunday that the suspect, identified only by his surname Guo, allegedly went to the home of a 21-year-old married woman in Xing county at around 2pm on Saturday, killing her husband, son and mother-in-law.

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 興／兴 (zh) (Xīng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xing Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3503, column 1

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Xing is the 21173^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1240 individuals. Xing is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.61%) individuals.