Guang'an
See also: guangan and guāngǎn
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Kuang-an
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 廣安／广安 (Guǎng'ān).
Proper noun
Guang'an
- A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
- [1978, Chi Hsin (research group), Teng Hsiao-ping: A Political Biography, Hong Kong: Cosmos Books, OCLC 5334671, page 3:
- TENG HSIAO-PING was born in Hsieh-hsing village, Kuang-an county, some 100 km. from Chungking, Szechwan province in 1904.]
- 1993, Evans, Richard, “Farmer's Son, 1904-20”, in Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China, Viking Press, →ISBN, LCCN 93-38475, OCLC 760620349, OL 1427339M, page 1:
- They lived in Paifang, a village a few miles from Guang'an, a county town - seat of an imperial magistrate - in the eastern part of the province.
- 2010 July 20, “China floods claim more lives”, in Emma Graham-Harrison; Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 29 May 2022, World News:
- Guangan city, also in Sichuan, faced the most severe floods since 1847, the official Xinhua agency said.
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Translations
prefecture-level city in China
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