Xin'an
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English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新安 (Xīn'ān).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Xin'an
- A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.
- 1989 December, Shulin Deng, “Sound the Alarm on Population Growth”, in Current World Leaders, volume 32, number 8, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1038:
- One village in Xin’an county in Henan province has 120 women of childbearing age. Except for five women who are sterile, the rest each have three, four, or even five children. The husbands of these women are prosperous, and willing to accept financial penalties in order to have more children. “The fines are no problem for us, it’s just a matter of raising one more ox or two pigs. We don’t mind paying,” say the village farmers.
- 2001, “The Legend of Mt Lanke”, in 韩玉 [Y N Han], transl., edited by 李小香 [Li Xiaoxiang], 中华文化的故事 [Origins of Chinese Culture], Asiapac Books, published 2005, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 145:
- During the Jin Dynasty, a woodcutter by the name of Wang Qiao lived at the foot of a mountain in Xin’an County of He’nan.
- 2015 July 29, Austin Ramzy, “After Appearing Drunk on Television, Chinese Official Faces Inquiry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-17, Sinosphere:
- At midday Wednesday, a few hours after the video began circulating online, the government of Xin’an County, in the city of Luoyang, announced that Mr. Si had been suspended from office and that the county discipline inspection commission had begun an investigation into his conduct.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xin'an.
- (historical) A former county Guangdong, China.
- , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 12:
- The Hong Kong region belonged to Xinan county, under the charge of the county magistrate, whose yamen or official office was located in the walled city of Nantou within present-day Shenzhen.]
- , →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 December 2020, Politics:
- In China, the compilation of local chronicles has a history for more than 2,000 years and can be traced back to the Qin dynasty. The last chronicles to include Hong Kong were completed in 1819, when it was still part of Xinan county during the Qing dynasty.]
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xin’an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3502, column 3
- Xin'an at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.