An-hui

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 安徽 (Ānhuī) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-hui¹.

Pronunciation

• enPR: änʹhwēʹ

Proper noun

An-hui

1. Alternative form of Anhui
   • 1911 January 26, “Survey of the World”, in The Independent‎, volume LXX, number 3243, New York, →OCLC, page 175, column 2:

     The famine in the northern part of the Province of An-hui becomes daily more serious and the funds so far sent by the Red Cross Society are altogether inadequate.

   • 1970, Joseph B. R. Whitney, China: Area, Administration, and Nation Building‎, Department of Geography, University of Chicago, →OCLC, page 42:

     The wide boundary impress traversing northern An-hui, although not currently used as a provincial demarcation, follows the low hills named the Huai-yang Shan separating Huai and Yellow River drainage from that of the Yangtze.

   • 2004 [2002], François Cheng, translated by Timothy Bent, Green Mountain, White Cloud‎, New York: St. Martin's Press, translation of L'éternité n'est pas de trop, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:

     When he arrived in An-hui, near the city of Xuan-cheng, he decided out of desperation to seek shelter in a monastery on Mount Huang.

   • 2004, Jason C. Kuo, “Introduction”, in Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's Late Work‎, Peter Lang, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:

     From the age of thirteen, Huang Pin-hung was able to study paintings in private collections that were being dispersed in the area around his ancestral home in She-hsien, An-hui Province, in the wake of the T’ai-p’ing Rebellion; he was particularly impressed by the works of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang (1555-1636) and Cha Shih-piao (1615-98).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:An-hui.

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Further reading

• “An-hui” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.