Huainan
See also: Huáinán and Huai-nan
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Huai-nan
Etymology
From the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 淮南 (“land[s] south of the Huai River”).
Proper noun
Huainan
- A prefecture-level city in Anhui, China.
- 1902, Ernst Faber, Chronological Handbook of the History of China, OCLC 4862645, page 185:
- 1319 Great fire at Yang 揚 chou ; over 23,300 official and private houses were burnt. All the roads in Shantung and Huainan were flooded.
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- (China, historical) A principality between the Huai and Yangtze rivers during the Han Dynasty.
- (China) The region of China between the Huai and Yangtze rivers generally.
Translations
a city of China
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huainan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1320, column 3
- “Huainan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Huainan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary