Meaning of Xiang in English:

noun

• A dialect of Chinese spoken by about 36 million people, mainly in Hunan province.

  ‘The main varieties of ‘Chinese’ (Cantonese, Hakka, Hsiang, Kan, Mandarin, Min, and Wu) are as distinct from one another as English from Danish or German.’

  ‘Approximately 3 per cent of the Han population speak Xiang dialects.’