Xinyu

See also: xīnyǔ, xìnyù, and Xīnyú

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新余 (Xīnyú).

Proper noun

Xinyu

1. A prefecture-level city in Jiangxi, China.
   • 2024 January 24, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Li You, Chris Buckley, Siyi Zhao, “Building Fire in China Kills at Least 39, With Others Trapped”, in The New York Times‎^[1], sourced from Beijing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on January 24, 2024, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     A fire in a commercial building in southeastern China killed at least 39 people on Wednesday, as emergency workers raced to rescue people still trapped inside.
     The fire broke out around 3:30 p.m. local time in Xinyu, a city in Jiangxi Province, in the basement of a building that housed an internet cafe on the ground floor and an educational center upstairs, according to Chinese state media and a local government announcement.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 新余 (san¹ jyu⁴)

  Mandarin: 新余 (zh) (Xīnyú)

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