盱眙

Xūyí
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Xuyi, county in Huai'an, Jiangsu, on the shore of Hongze Lake

Examples

HSK 1
Xūyí zài Jiāngsū Huái'ān.
Xuyi is in Huai'an, Jiangsu.
HSK 7-9
Xiàtiān hěnduō rén zhuānmén kāichē qù Xūyí chī xiǎolóngxiā.
In summer lots of people drive to Xuyi just to eat crayfish.

Tips

culture
The county in full is 盱眙县, and it made its name with crayfish: 盱眙龙虾, cooked with thirteen spices, is sold all over China, and the county has held a crayfish festival every summer since 2001.
mistakes
Both characters are rare and the name is often misread. 盱 means to open the eyes wide and 眙 to gaze; in old texts the pair means "to look up and stare".

Stroke Order

盱 xū
眙 Yí