Xingguo

See also: xīngguó

English

Map including HSING-KUO (XINGGUO) (DMA, 1996)

Alternative forms

• Hsing-kuo (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興國／兴国 (Xīngguó).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪŋˈɡwoʊ/

Proper noun

Xingguo

1. A county of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China.
   • 1972 March, Chi Hung, “An Old Revolutionary Base—Yesterday and Today”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], volume 21, number 3, Peking, →OCLC, pages 24–25:

     HSINGKUO county in the hilly region of southern Kiangsi province was one of China’s earliest revolutionary bases. […]
     Surrounded by mountains and crossed by the Lienchiang River, Hsingkuo county lies in a beautiful natural setting.

   • 1985, Harrison E. Salisbury, “A Walk by Moonlight”, in The Long March‎^[2], Harper & Row, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5:

     Chen Yi cursed as he had a hundred times since he had been carried from the front in Xingguo county six weeks ago with a bullet wound in his hip which refused to heal.

   • 1990, Mao Zedong, translated by Roger Thompson, Report from Xunwu‎^[3], Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 210:

     There are very few geomancers in Xunwu County; most of them are from Xingguo.

   • 2022 August 10, Stephen Chen, “Chinese scientists say maglev ‘sky train’ floats without power using permanent magnets”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], archived from the original on 2022-08-10, Science‎^[5]:

     The 800-metre (2,600-foot) experimental Red Rail in southern China’s Xingguo county, Jiangxi province, used powerful magnets rich in rare earth elements to produce a constantly repelling force strong enough to lift a train with 88 passengers in the air, according to a report by state broadcaster China Central Television on Tuesday.

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 興國／兴国 (zh) (Xīngguó)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xingguo”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3503, column 1