Xiang
Britishnoun
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a river in SE central China, rising in NE Guangxi and flowing northeast and north to Dongting Lake. Length: about 1150 km (715 miles)
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a river in S China, rising in SE Yunnan and flowing generally east to the Hongxiu (the upper course of the Xi River). Length: about 800 km (500 miles)
Example Sentences
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Maintaining incentives like 6% APY can be difficult and may even be unsustainable over time, Xiang Zheng, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Connecticut, recently told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
Chinese acting charge d'affaires Liu Xiang said the deal "constitutes participation in the 'belt and road' initiative".
From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025
"The impact of nerve injury on the immune system across the lifespan is sexually dimorphic" by Sam Zhou, Xiang Shi, Alain Zhang, Magali Millecamps, Jeffrey Mogil and Ji Zhang was published in Neurobiology of Pain.
From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2025
“The whole game is meaningless, crushing, exhausting,” said Xiang Biao, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025
Xiang Xiang takes a break from eating bamboo to hang out in histraining enclosure.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
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