Hai-nan

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See also: Hainan and Hǎinán

English

Map including HAI-NAN TAO (ATC, 1969)

Etymology

Wade-Giles transcription of Mandarin 海南 (Hǎinán).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Hai-nan

  1. Alternative form of Hainan
    • 1802, Jedidiah Morse, Elijah Parish, “Loui-tcheou-fou”, in A New Gazetteer of the Eastern Continent‎, Samuel Etheridge, page :
      Its territory is ſeparated, by a narrow ſtrait only, from the iſle of Hai-nan : 315 miles S W Canton.
    • 1971, Central Intelligence Bulletin‎, Directorate of Intelligence, page 5:
      COMMUNIST CHINA: Peking is expanding its naval activity in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea some 200 miles southeast of Hai-nan Island.
    • 1995, Jesus B. Tupaz, John W. Diercks, Dean A. Morss, 1981 Annual Typhoon Report‎, Joint Typhoon Warning Center, page 69:
      Synoptic and satellite data also indicated that Warren's vertical axis was tilted southward as he tracked over Hai-nan.
      After passing over Hai-nan, Warren emerged into the Gulf of Tonkin.
    • 2007, Nigel Cawthorne, Daughter of Heaven‎, Oneworld Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 77:
      This was the southernmost province of the Empire, comprising what is now north Vietnam and the island of Hai-nan.

Translations

Hainan — see Hainan

References

  1. ^ Hainan, Wade-Giles romanization Hai-nan, in Encyclopædia Britannica

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