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Huītzilōpōchtli

Huītzilōpōchtli (Huitzilopochtli), "left hummingbird", was the Mexica god of war and sun, patron deity of Tenochtitlan, born fully armed at Coatepec, honored in the Templo Mayor and the festival Panquetzaliztli.

Huiwei

Huiwei (慧威, also written 惠威, 634–713) was a Tang dynasty Buddhist monk of Wuzhou Dongyang counted as the seventh Tiantai patriarch, between Zhiwei and Zuoxi Xuanlang.

Oct 20, 2026

Huixing

Huixing (回兴街道) is a subdistrict of Yubei District, Chongqing, in Liangjiang New Area; named in 1940 from Huilong Town and Chongxing Township, now a 16.42 km² residential and industrial street with 11 communities.

Huiyan

Huiyan (慧严, 363–443/444) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Liu Song dynasty, a student of Kumārajīva who co-edited the thirty-six-volume southern recension of the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra in 436.

Huiyao (institutional compendia)

Huiyao (会要) are Chinese reference works that organize a dynasty's government into topical categories, placing imperial edicts and officials' memorials under each heading in chronological order; the Song compiled more than ten.

Huiyi (Liu Song monk who self-immolated in 463)

Huiyi (慧益, died 463) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Liu Song dynasty who self-immolated near Jiankang while asking the emperor to ordain twenty men.

Huiyi (monk of Huiyuan's Mount Lu community)

Huiyi (慧义) is a Chinese Buddhist monk whom hagiographic tradition places at Huiyuan's Mount Lu community around 400, remembered for challenging Huiyuan with questions and withdrawing without a debate.

Huiyu

Huiyu (慧豫, also Shihuiyu, 釋慧豫; 433–489) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of Huanglong origin at Linggen Temple, known only through a notice in the Gaoseng zhuan.

Sep 19, 2026

Huiyuan

Huiyuan Juice (汇源果汁), formally China Huiyuan Juice Group, is a Chinese juice producer founded by Zhu Xinli in 1992, blocked from a Coca-Cola takeover in 2009.

Huiyuan (Tang dynasty Huayan Buddhist monk)

Huiyuan (慧苑, 673–743) was a Tang dynasty Huayan Buddhist monk, Fazang's foremost disciple, known for his Sanskrit glossary on the Avataṃsaka Sūtra and for a doctrinal break with Fazang.

Oct 21, 2026

Huiyuan Old and New City Sites

惠远新、老古城遗址 (Huiyuan Xin, Lao Gucheng Yizhi): paired Qing-dynasty city ruins in Huocheng County, Xinjiang. The 1763 old city, seat of the Ili General, was destroyed after the 1871 Russian occupation; the 1882 new city survives with 5.2 km of walls.

Huiyue

Huiyue (慧约, 453 – 535) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Liang dynasty who served as precept master when Emperor Wu and 48,000 disciples took bodhisattva vows in 519.

Oct 21, 2026

Huizhou

Huizhou (惠州) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Guangdong, China, bordering Shenzhen and Dongguan. Known for Daya Bay petrochemicals, TCL electronics, 6.19 million people, and 2,200 years of history.

Huizhou 21-1 Oil and Gas Field

Huizhou 21-1 (惠州21-1) is an offshore oil and gas field in the South China Sea, first produced in 1990 as China's first million-tonne offshore oilfield.

Huizhou Chinese (徽州话)

Huizhou Chinese, also called Hui Chinese or 徽州话, is one of the ten primary varieties of Chinese, spoken in southern Anhui and nearby Jiangxi and Zhejiang since medieval times.

Huizhou hydroelectric plant

The Huizhou hydroelectric plant (惠州抽水蓄能电站) is a pumped-storage station in Boluo County, Huizhou, Guangdong, China, with 2,400 MW of capacity and full commissioning at the end of May 2011.

Huizhou LNG Terminal

Huizhou LNG Terminal, also known as 惠州LNG接收站, is a liquefied natural gas import terminal in Huizhou, Guangdong, China, opened in 2024 with a capacity of 4 million tonnes per year.

Sep 25, 2026

Huizhou Merchant Network

The Huizhou Merchant Network (徽州商帮), or Hui merchants, was a Chinese merchant group from Huizhou, Anhui, that dominated salt, pawnbroking, tea, and timber trade from the Ming dynasty.

Oct 21, 2026

Huizhou Shi

Huizhou Shi (惠州市) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Guangdong, China, at the northeastern Pearl River Delta. Second-largest Greater Bay Area mainland city by land area (11,350 km²), administering Huicheng, Huiyang, Huidong, Boluo, Longmen, with 2024 GDP of 613.6 billion yuan.

Huizi

Huizi (会子) was the paper currency issued by China's Southern Song government from 1160, first printed by Qian Duanli and issued in three-year periods capped at 10 million guan.

Sep 25, 2026

Huizi Bureau

The Huizi Bureau (行在会子库) was the Southern Song government office that printed and administered huizi paper currency, first issued in 1160 and circulating from Liangzhe to Hubei.

Sep 24, 2026

Huizong's Daoist program and the Shenxiao edicts

Huizong's Daoist program and the Shenxiao edicts (徽宗崇道) were Emperor Huizong of Song's state patronage of the Shenxiao school of Daoism, ended after his 1125 abdication.

Oct 22, 2026

Hujan Bulan Juni

Hujan Bulan Juni ("Rain in June") is an Indonesian poem written by Sapardi Djoko Damono in 1989, famous for its opening line "Nothing is more steadfast than June rain."

Hujianshan Oil Field

Hujianshan Oil Field (胡尖山) is an onshore oil field in Dingbian County, Yulin, Shaanxi, China, in the Ordos Basin, discovered in 2001 and producing since 2006.

Hujr Akil al-Murar

Hujr Akil al-Murar (حُجْر آكل المرار), fully Hujr ibn Amr Akil al-Murar al-Kindi, was a king of the Kinda tribe in pre-Islamic Arabia who founded its royal dynasty.

Hujr ibn Adi

Hujr ibn Adi (حجر بن عدي) was an Arab companion of Ali ibn Abi Talib, killed by the caliph Mu'awiya at Marj Adhra' near Damascus in 671.

Hujwiri

Hujwiri, also known as Data Ganj Bakhsh, was a Hanafi Sunni Sufi author who settled in Lahore under Ghaznavid rule and died there around 1072.

Huka Falls

Huka Falls, on the Waikato River near Taupō, New Zealand, is the river's largest waterfall, where the flow narrows to about 15 m and surges at roughly 220,000 litres per second; name means foam, height varies 7–11 m.