新潟县 xīnxìxiàn Niigata prefecture Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 新 xīn adjective new new; fresh; up-to-date; newly appearing or just discovered潟 xì [place name] Used in place names, most notably 新潟 xīnxiè (Niigata, Japan); often mistakenly written as 泻 xiè.县 縣 xiàn noun county an administrative division below the level of a province or prefecture and above the level of a township; county