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Etymology
From Mandarin 孝感 (Xiàogǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsiao⁴-kan³.
Proper noun
Hsiaokan
- Alternative form of Xiaogan
1912, Percy Horace Kent, “The Struggle for Hankow”, in The Passing of the Manchus, Longmans, Green & Co., →OCLC, 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.
1937, Hollington Tong, Chiang Kai-shek Soldier And Statesman, volume 1, Shanghai: China Publishing Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 114:As Hanyang is of great importance on account of the arsenal being located in that area, Wu wished to recapture it, but Chin Yun-ao urged him to retreat to Hsiaokan along the Peking-Hankow Railway, and to let Liu Tso-lung occupy Hankow.
1998, Noel Gibbard, Griffith John: Apostle to Central China, Bryntirion Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 143:Dr Walton arrived in 1893, and the two men made preparations to open a hospital at Hsiaokan, encouraged by a gift of £200 for building purposes from the Mission to Lepers, with a promise of £50 p.a. for costs.
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