Siccawei

English

Etymology

A romanization of the Shanghainese pronunciation of Chinese 徐家匯 / 徐家汇 (xxi-ka-hhue).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪːkəˈweɪ/, /sɪːkɑːˈweɪ/
  • enPR: sǐʹku̇wāʺ[1]

Proper noun

Siccawei

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
    • 1973, Rewi Alley, “Shanghai”, in 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71]‎[2], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 76:
      The factory we went to see was out in the Hsuchiahui (Siccawei, in Shanghai dialect) district, and was called the Deaf and Mute Workers' Electrical Appliance Factory No. 2.
    • 1992, Caleb Carr, “"Not As Was Hoped, Dead..."”, in The Devil Soldier: The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward‎[3], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 126:
      Early on the morning of the eighteenth the Taipings occupied the historic town of Hsu-chia-hui, or Siccawei, just west of the port, where Jesuit missionaries had long before established an important Catholic community.
  2. (obsolete) Synonym of Xuhui, the larger district of Shanghai, China, surrounding Xujiahui.

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Zikawei, Sicawei, or Siccawei”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2143, column 2
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