Puxiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• (obsolete) P'u-hsi

語源

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 浦西 (Pǔxī, literally “West Bank”), derived from its position west of the Huangpu River.

固有名詞

Puxi

1. The central area of Shanghai, China, particularly Huangpu District.
   • 2004 June 2, Alexandra A. Seno, “DOING BUSINESS : Shanghai seizes the gilded, glitzy day”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 10, 2024, Style‎:

     Where just 20 years ago there were rice paddies, now stands the new and ultramodern Pudong financial district and its imposing office towers. On Puxi, across the river, is the Bund, a collection of stately Art Deco buildings from the 1920s and '30s that call to mind old parts of New York or London. Before the 1949 Communist revolution, the buildings housed the headquarters of international banks and trading companies.

   • 2022 March 29, “REFILE-In China's Wall Street, bankers and traders sleep in offices to beat Shanghai COVID lockdown”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 30 April 2022, 公司新闻(英文)‎:

     An executive at a foreign bank in Shanghai, who declined to be identified, said his bank is on a hybrid working model, with some staff working and sleeping at a backup office in Puxi, in the western side of the city, while some others staying in a trading room in Pudong.

参考

• Pudong

Further reading

• Puxi, P'u-hsi, Pu-hsi, Puhsi at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.