Xiamen
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See also: Xiàmén
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1][2] romanization of the Mandarin 廈門／厦門／厦门 (Xiàmén).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Xiamen
- A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city in Fujian, in southeastern China.
- 2017 September 4, “BRICS meets in shadow of North Korea bombshell”, in France 24, archived from the original on 04 September 2017, Live news:
- The BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- had gathered in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen hoping to counter accusations that the group of big emerging economies was drifting apart and becoming irrelevant.
- 2022 September 1, Didi Tang, “Taiwan shoots down Chinese drone”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 September 2022, World:
- For the past month Beijing has routinely sent drones over the Kinmen islands, which are about six miles from the coastal Chinese city of Xiamen. Recently China started to release high-resolution, close-range drone video of military facilities on Kinmen.
- 2024 February 28, “China tells Taiwan to explain death of 2 fishermen near Kinmen Islands”, in EFE, archived from the original on 29 February 2024:
- After the incident, Taiwan said five Chinese surveillance ships on Monday had entered prohibited or restricted waters of the Kinmen Islands, located a few kilometers from the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen, home to more than 100,000 Taiwanese.
Synonyms
Translations
a sub-provincial city in southeastern China
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References
- ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 479: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Hsia-men (Xiamen) 厦門”
- ^ Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈) (2015) “Transliteration Tables”, in Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan, Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 428: “Transliterations used in the text / Hanyu pinyin / Chinese characters or Japanese kanji […] Amoy (Hsiamen) / Xiamen / 廈門”
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiamen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3500, column 3
- “Xiamen”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Xiamen, Amoy, Hsiamen, Hsia-men, Siamen at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- “Xiamen, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Xiamen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Xiamen”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Xiamen” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 廈門／厦门 (Xiàmén).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Xiamen f
- Xiamen (a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city in Fujian, in southeastern China)