Huai-an

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English

Map including Huai-an (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 淮安 (Huái'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Huai²-an¹.

Proper noun

Huai-an

  1. Alternative form of Huai'an
    • 1966, 鄭徳坤 [Chêng Tê-k'un], Prehistoric China (Archaeology in China)‎, volume 1, →OCLC, page 109:
      The site of Ch'ing-lien-kang in Huai-an, Kiangsu, furnishes a good example (17).
    • 1973, Hin-cheung Lovell, “Sung and Yüan Monochrome Lacquers in the Freer Gallery”, in Ars Orientalis, volume 9, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 122:
      There have been several instances of discovery of Sung lacquer reported in Chinese publications in the past two decades; the most substantial is undoubtedly from a group of five tombs at Yang-miao Chen 楊廟鎭, a town about four miles southwest of Huai-an 淮安 in Kiangsu province.
    • 1976, Shang-jen K'ung, translated by Harold Acton, The Peach Blossom Fan, New York Review Books, published 2015, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90:
      Your Honours! The Governor General of Huai-an, His Excellency Shih K’o-fa, and the Military Governor of Feng-yang, His Excellency Ma Shih- ying, have both arrived.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Huai-an.

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References

  1. ^ Huai'an, Wade-Giles romanization Huai-an, in Encyclopædia Britannica