Etymograph

English

Hebi

Hebi comes from Mandarin 鶴壁.

  1. Mandarinmodern鶴壁Hèbì
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2014Hebi

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mandarinmodern鶴壁Hèbì
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2014Hebi

Earliest quotation: 2014, Simon Denyer, China bars AIDS activist from traveling despite talk of endi: “But she said authorities in her native Henan province…”

Today it means

name A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Mandarin 鶴壁 / Hebi