Hai'an
See also: hǎi'àn
English
Alternative forms
- (postal romanization) Haian
- (from Wade–Giles) Hai-an
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 海安 (Hǎi'ān).
Proper noun
Hai'an
- A county-level city in Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
- 1992, Honig, Emily, “In Search of Subei”, in Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980, Yale University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 92-6055, OCLC 471616617, page 33:
- Fei therefore proposes refining this correlation of economic development and geographic identity. "If the matter is given more thought," he remarks, "it can be seen that the northern part of the Nantong Municipality that includes Hai'an and Rudong counties is not very much influenced economically by Shanghai."
- 2006, Pomfret, John, “Yin Finds Yang”, in Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China, New York: Henry Holt and Company, published 2007, →ISBN, LCCN 2006041211, OCLC 1037188317, OL 7933318M, page 124:
- The couple didn’t have money for even the simplest of weddings, so they told their parents that they had the ceremony in Nanjing and told their Nanda classmates that they had married back in Hai’an. After a month at home in Hai’an, the couple returned to Nanjing, spent a day packing up their worldly possessions—ten boxes of books, two wooden trunks, and an envelope containing one hundred yuan (sixteen dollars) in borrowed money—and boarded the train to Hefei, the capital of Anhui.
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- A town in Xuwen, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
- A residentialcommunity in Chenjiagang, Xiangshui, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China.
Translations
prefecture-level city in eastern China; town in southern China; residential community in eastern China
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hai'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1213, column 3
Anagrams
- Anahi, Hania, hanai