Meaning of Siyi | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A geographic region consisting of the four former counties of Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping, and Enping, collectively; now a part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
2. A dialect of Cantonese Chinese mainly spoken in Jiangmen.

Examples

“Aside from these two deltas, other densely-populated areas are the southern Mu-ming Plain in western Kwangtung and Ssu-i (including Hsin-hui, Kai-ping, Tai-shan, and En-ping) where the population density per square kilometer averages 300.”

Economic Geography of Kwangtung

“People in the Ssu-i (the four counties — T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, En-p'ing), for example, though not far from Canton, have⟳ their own⟳ distinct dialect, which is scarcely intelligible to an ordinary Cantonese.”

“Report⟳ by village enumerates death and property losses in the Siyi region resulting from the Japanese invasion which began on 3 March⟳ 1941.”

“Experts say⟳ up to 80 percent of the Chinese in North America came from the so called “Say-yat” region in the Pearl River Delta -- a group of four districts including Kaiping and Taishan.”

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