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河西

Mandarin · pinyin Hé xī

land west of the Yellow river
Shaanxi, Qinghai and Gansu provinces

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河: hé · river; stream; the Yellow River
西: xī · west(ern); westward; occident; Kangxi radical 146

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2–1 · He2 xi1

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(historical) Hexi (region west of the upper reaches of the Yellow River)
(historical) Hexi (region west of the upper reaches of the Yellow River) — nonstandard form of 西夏 (Xī Xià)
(～區) Hexi (a district of Tianjin, China)
(～街道) Hexi (a subdistrict of Golmud, Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China)

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