Xiling

A district of Yichang, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

  1. A district of Yichang, Hubei, China.
    • To begin in the Yangtze Valley between Yi-ch’ang (Hupei) and Pa-tung (Szechwan), in the Hsiling Gorge area that was the gateway to the Red basin to the west: fifty-four early sites investigated in 1960 have been grouped...
    • A resident leaves home with her pet cat at a community in the Xiling District of Yichang City, central China's Hubei province, on March 20, 2020. As the country’s population gets older and more people choose not to have...
  2. A subdistrict of Xiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.

Origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西陵 (Xīlíng).

Forms

Hsi-ling