Etymograph

English

Wenxi

Wenxi comes from Mandarin 聞喜.

  1. Mandarinmodern聞喜Wénxǐ
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2003Wenxi

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mandarinmodern聞喜Wénxǐ
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2003Wenxi

Earliest quotation: 2003, Joseph Kahn, In China, Quick Rise And Death Of a Tycoon: “Li Haicang was the richest and most powerful man…”

Today it means

name A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.

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

Etymograph / Mandarin 聞喜 / Wenxi