Huayuan
See also: huāyuán and huàyuán
English
Alternative forms
- Hwayüan
- (from Wade–Giles) Hua-yüan
Etymology
From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 花園／花园 (Huāyuán).
Proper noun
Huayuan
- A town in Xiaochang, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
- 1912, Kent, Percy Horace, “The Struggle for Hankow”, in The Passing of the Manchus, Longmans, Green & Co., OCLC 906325465, page 135:
- By October the 24th, headquarters had passed from Huayuan to Hsiaokan, only 45 miles from Hankow, and in a telegram dated from that place on October 25th it was announced by General Yin Ch'ang that the main body of the Imperialists had moved forward to Niehkow, some six or seven miles from Kilometre Ten, and that he himself was following.
- 1926, Julean Arnold, China: a Commercial and Industrial Handbook, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, OCLC 631232705, page 441:
- The Hupeh provincial authorities have recently completed the construction of a highway from Siangyang to Shasi, a distance of approximately 200 miles; an extension from Siangyang to Tsaoyang has been completed, and this road is being extended through to Huayuan on the Peking-Hankow Raihvay, a total distance of 170 miles.
- 2020 [August 4, 1930], Jin, Yinan (金一南), Misery and Glory: The Long March and Its Antecedents, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, OCLC 1285455616, page :
- On the night of the 27th they took Changsha and occupied Nanchang on July 30. Meanwhile, the Communists in northern Hubei blocked the Beiping-Hankou Railway at Huayuan town and advanced further to take Xiaogan.
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- A village in Xinchengzi, Miyun district, Beijing, China.
Translations
town in central China
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huayuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1325, column 2