Wu-han

See also: Wuhan, Wu Han, and Wǔhàn

English

Map including WU-HAN (DMA, 1972)

Etymology

From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 武漢／武汉 (Wu³-han⁴).[1]

Proper noun

Wu-han

Alternative spelling of Wuhan
- 1948 March, W. Robert Moore, “Along the Yangtze, Main Street of China”, in National Geographic Magazine‎, volume XCIII, number 3, ISSN 0027-9358, OCLC 643483454, page 341:
  At the moment much industry of the Wu-han Cities is at a standstill.
- 1965, James Cameron, Here is Your Enemy‎, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, LCCN 66-20860, OCLC 958201097, OL 5990135M, pages 16-17:
  My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity.
- 1967, Yuan-li Wu, The Spatial Economy of Communist China‎, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, LCCN 67-20739, OCLC 860169638, page 192:
  Logically, coal should have been imported from the P’ing-ting-shan mine which is far closer to the Wu-han market.
- 1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 11, LCCN 68-10064, OCLC 1036882, page 902, column 1:
  The population is mostly concentrated in the eastern lowlands where the Han river joins the Yangtze at the great tri-city metropolis of Wu-han (q.v.).
- 1975, Wu-han (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities)‎, Central Intelligence Agency, page 2:
  The Wu-han cities are physically separated by the rivers: Han-k'ou and Han-yang are located on the left bank of the Yangtze and north and south of the Han Shui, respectively; Wu-ch'ang lies on the right bank of the Yangtze.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wu-han.

Translations

Wuhan — see Wuhan

References

Wuhan, Wade-Giles romanization Wu-han, in Encyclopædia Britannica