Siyi

• (from Wade–Giles) Ssu-i

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 四邑 (Sìyì).

Siyi

1. Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping, and Enping, collectively; four former counties that now are a part of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
   • [1956, Liang, Jen-ts'ai (梁仁采), Economic Geography of Kwangtung (广东经济地理)‎, Peiping, OCLC 19877116, pages 15-16:

     Aside from these two deltas, other densely-populated areas are the southern Mu-ming Plain in western Kwangtung and Ssu-i (including Hsin-hui, Kai-ping, Tai-shan, and En-ping) where the population density per square kilometer averages 300.]

   • [1969, Vogel, Ezra, Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968‎, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 70-91631, OCLC 444542084, page 24:

     People in the Ssu-i (the four counties — T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, En-p'ing), for example, though not far from Canton, have their own distinct dialect, which is scarcely intelligible to an ordinary Cantonese.]

   • 1986, Him Mark Lai, A History Reclaimed: An Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Language Materials on the Chinese of America‎, University of California, →ISBN, LCCN 85-63309, OCLC 230964710, page 4:

     Report by village enumerates death and property losses in the Siyi region resulting from the Japanese invasion which began on 3 March 1941.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Siyi.
2. A dialect of Cantonese Chinese mainly spoken in Jiangmen.

• (from Cantonese) Sze Yap, Szeyap, Sz Yap, Sze Yup, Szeyup, Sz Yup, Seiyap, Seiyup, Sz Yip, See Yip, See Yup

• Taishanese (a major dialect of Siyi Cantonese)