Luyi

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 鹿邑.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: lo͞oʹyēʹ[1]

Proper noun

Luyi

  1. A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
    • 1974, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
      The region was hit by a rainstorm at the time when the wheat was milking, and daily rainfall exceeded 200 milimetres in many communes and production brigades in the worst afflicted Luyi County. The Luyi County party committee led the commune members in draining the fields in the midst of heavy rain, thus freeing them from inundation.
    • 2004, Guomei (夏国美) Xia, HIV/AIDS in China (艾滋病在中国, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 154:
      In 2003, the court of Luyi County in Henan Province issued its verdict in a lawsuit involving AIDS infection by blood transfusion, ruling that the defendant, the clinic of Xinji Town in Luyi County pay the plaintiff a total of 400,000 yuan in compensation for psychological trauma and to cover expenses for continuing treatment, pay the plaintiff’s elder daughter a total of 110,000 yuan as compensation for psychological trauma and living expenses, and pay the plaintiff’s wife and second daughter a total of 30,000 yuan for medical fees, compensation for bereavement and funeral costs.
    • 2016 May 2, Emily Rauhala, Gu Jinglu, “Domestic abuse is thriving in China’s culture of silence”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 03 May 2016:
      The director of the federation’s Luyi County office, Guo Yanfang, said the organization has been spreading the word about the new anti-domestic violence law and encouraging survivors to seek help.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Luyi.

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References

  1. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Luyi or Lu-i”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1100, column 3

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