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Xinhua¹

Sounds like Sinhua

Where it comes from

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

proper noun Hsinhua · Hsin-hua · Sinhua

  1. A district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. In a move hailed by some as a step towards promoting business morality and branded as basically Orwellian by others, the country’s first community credit and reputation file system was launched in the Xinhua district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on March 20, according to a report run in China Yo
  2. A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
  3. A town in Shennongjia, Hubei, China.
  4. abbreviation, ellipsis 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. China's official news agency said Saturday it will adopt the Chinese Pinyin phonetic alphabet beginning Jan. 1, when Peking will become Beijing (pronounced bay-jing) and the agency Xinhua instead of Hsinhua.

Xinhua²

Sounds like Sinhua

Where it comes from

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新化 (Xīnhuà).

proper noun Hsinhua · Hsin-hua · Sinhua

  1. A county of Loudi, Hunan, China. Chen Tianhua [1875-1905] was a young man from Xinhua district in Hunan province.
  2. alternative Alternative form of Sinhua (Taiwan) On the face of it, Tainan is ethnically homogeneous. Almost everyone, it seems, is descended from Han Chinese who came to Taiwan two or more centuries ago. That's what most people believe, anyhow. The leaders of the Xinhua-based Siraya Culture Association think otherwise, arguing that many Tainan fo

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name district; town in central China

中文新華 /新华 Xīnhuá

name county

中文新化 Xīnhuà

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@misc{xinhua_2026,
  title = {Xinhua},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/xinhua},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}