Wu-Han
See also: Wuhan, Wǔhàn, Wu-han, and Wu Han
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 武漢/武汉 (Wǔ Hàn) Wade–Giles romanization Wu³-Han⁴.
Proper noun
Wu-Han
- Alternative spelling of Wuhan
- 1926, Lucian Swift Kirtland, Finding the Worth While in the Orient, New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, OCLC 1600345, page 192:
- A stream called the Han River separates Hankow from Hanyang, and these two towns, together with Wu-chang across the Yangtse, are known as the Wu-Han cities. The steel mills, which are often referred to as the "Hankow mills," are at Hanyang.
- 1929 April 6, “Hankow in Hands of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek”, in The China Weekly Review, volume XLVIII, number 6, OCLC 52770868, page 226, column 1:
- The main forces of the Wu-Han armies were concentrated on the line extending from Yanglo to Hsiaokwan by way of Huangpi.
- 1969, Dun J. Li, editor, The Road to Communism: China Since 1912, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, LCCN 70-94763, OCLC 713955935, page 39:
- The other day I learned from a newspaper report that practically all of the 200 Communists who had been executed in Wu-Han were twenty-five or below and that the majority of them had been girls.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wu-Han.
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