Word info Synonyms

hui

Speech parts

1. hui - Noun

2. Hui - Proper noun

Meaning

hui (plural hui or huis)

(New Zealand) A Māori social gathering or assembly.


Hui pl (plural only)

An ethnic group of China, distinguished by their practice of Islam, who speak Mandarin (or Dungan in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia).


Hui

A Chinese lect spoken in Southern Anhui and neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi.


Hui

A surname from Chinese.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

My phrase is a moment, the moment of fixity in the monologue of Zeno the Eleatic and Huí Shih ("I leave today for Yüeh and I arrive yesterday”). Octavio Paz

Although the first attempts at an axiomatisation of geometry appear in the Mohist canon in 330 BC, Liu Hui developed algebraic methods in geometry in the 3rd century AD and also calculated pi to 5 significant figures. Source: Internet

A " King Hui " was declared, but his splinter state was fully removed by 249 BC. Source: Internet

Historically, the Hui have been staunch supporters of the Chinese state, and even played a critical role in the dismantling of the first East Turkistan Republic in 1933 and the second in 1944. Source: Internet

Guanyin is sometimes confused with Yue Hui Bodhisattva due to their similar appearance. Source: Internet

It probably helped that Kim Kyong Hui and Jang Song Thaek’s marriage — which began as a fairy tale love story — did not reportedly stand the test of time. Source: Internet

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