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Xiang

proper nounproper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ʃiɑŋ//
  • //ʃɑŋ//
  • //ʃæŋ//

A Chinese language spoken mainly in Hunan province, China

proper noun

  1. 1

    A Chinese language spoken mainly in Hunan province, China

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 湘 (Xiāng).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Chinese.

Etymology

From several Mandarin surnames, including 項/项 (Xiàng), 向 (Xiàng) and 相 (Xiāng).

Forms

plural
Xiangs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).