Wuhsi

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 無錫／无锡 (Wúxī) Wade–Giles romanization: Wu-hsi.

Proper noun

Wuhsi

1. (dated) Alternative form of Wuxi
   • 1976, Solid State Physics in the People's Republic of China‎, Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, →ISBN, page 41:

     WUHSI, SEPTEMBER 25-26
     Our short stay in Wuhsi served as a rest stop, since there was no physics institution to visit....The Wuhsi authorities seemed anxious to create a good impression, since the Chinese government is attempting to build up Wuhsi as an alternative to the better-known scenic spots nearby, Soochow and Hangchow....Since Wuhsi is in the heart of the silk and fishery industrial areas, the commune grew mulberry trees to feed the silkworms and had some 120 man-made ponds for hatching many kinds of edible fishes.

   • 1980 April 6, L. Chen, “Small things, big troubles”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXI, number 13, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     Wood, bamboo, wood-oil and materials for the making of small daily goods are either unavailable, too costly or not up to required standards. Many enterprises have thus been forced to alter their production patterns. Wuhsi (in Kiangsu province, midway between Shanghai and Nanking) had planned to make 235 kinds of consumer goods last year but had to abandon more than 80 of them because problems of raw materials could not be settled.

   • 1983, Edwin T. Morris, The Gardens of China‎, Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 118–119:

     Wuhsi
     A million years ago, the East China Sea reached into the present Wuhsi area as a bay....
     Since the thirties, Wuhsi has become increasingly industrialized; it is now one of the most important manufacturing towns in the area, far more important in this regard than nearby Suchou....Silk has always been a Wuhsi industry, and the mulberry trees around the lake feed the worms that feed the filatures of the town.

Anagrams

• Wushi, Wusih