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Hsia

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From Mandarin 夏 (Xià) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsia⁴.

proper noun Hsias · Xia

  1. A surname. In February, the newly elected mayor of Taipei, Chiang Wan-an, welcomed a delegation from the Shanghai branch of the Taiwan Affairs Office. Andrew Hsia, a Kuomintang vice chairman, went to China and met with Wang Huning and Song Tao, two key figures in Beijing’s Taiwan strategy.
  2. alternative Alternative form of Xia China’s traditional history begins with the Hsia dynasty, ca. 2000 BCE.

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name surname; dynasty

中文夏 Xià

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@misc{hsia_2026,
  title = {Hsia},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hsia},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}