Liu-an

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See also: liǔ'ān, Liu'an, and Liù'ān

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 六安 (Liù'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Liu⁴-an¹.

Proper noun

Liu-an

  1. Alternative form of Liu'an (Lu'an)
    • 1972, Chang Kuo-tʻao, The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party 1928-1938, volume II, University Press of Kansas, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 226:
      On the third day, after covering some seventy li through the southern part of Shang-ch’eng, I arrived at Chin-chia-chai, which was a market town in Liu-an County of Anhwei Province, in the neighborhood of Shang-ch’eng, of Honan Province. The southern district of Shang-ch’eng and the Chin-chia-chai district of Liu-an were relatively old Soviet regions, which took Chin-chia-chai as their center.
    • 1973, Michael Sullivan, Chinese Art: Recent Discoveries, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:
      Square stamped sheets of gold money found in 1969 and 1970 at Liu-an and Fu-nan in Anhui testify to the prosperity of Ch’u in the late Chou period.

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