English Explanatory Dictionary

Xinhua

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.
  2. A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
  3. A town in Shennongjia, Hubei, China.
  4. Ellipsis of Xinhua News Agency (新华社), the New China News Agency (新华通讯社); the government news agency of the People's Republic of China: XNA.
name
  1. A county of Loudi, Hunan, China.
  2. Alternative form of Sinhua (Taiwan)

Pronunciation

shǐnʹhwäʹ

Word forms

Xinhua Hsinhua Hsin-hua Sinhua

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新華／新华 (Xīnhuá, literally “New China”).

Translations

Chinese Cantonese: 新華 /新华 Chinese Mandarin: 新華 /新华 Polish: Xinhua
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on X Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary