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Huainan en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• hwī′nän′

Etymology

From the Mandarin 淮南 (Huáinán, “land[s] south of the Huai River”).

Meanings

1. A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
   • 1319 Great fire at Yang 揚 chou ; over 23,300 official and private houses were burnt. All the roads in Shantung and Huainan were flooded. 1902, Ernst Faber, Chronological Handbook of the History of China, →OCLC, page 185:
   • Huainan, a city in Anhui Province, ordered banks to extend more money and shorten loan approval times, as well as lower the mortgage rates and down payment requirements for first-time buyers. 2022 June 20, Daisuke Wakabayashi, Joy Dong, “China’s Once-Sizzling Property Market Has Started to Cool”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2022, Business:
   • After reporting one positive case, Huainan, a city of nearly 3.5 million people in Anhui province that borders Shanghai, ordered residents not to leave unless they can provide a negative test result taken within the past 48 hours. 2022 March 27, Luna Sun, “Private industrial enterprises in China see profits fall in first two months of the year”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2022, China Economy:
2. (China, historical) A principality between the Huai and Yangtze rivers during the Han Dynasty.
3. (China) The region of China between the Huai and Yangtze rivers generally.

Forms

Translations (9)

cmn 淮南 (a city of China) · ja 淮南 (a city of China) · ar خْوَايْنَان (a city of China) · vi Hoài Nam (a city of China) · ar هْوَايْنَان (a city of China) · hu Huajnan (a city of China) · ko 화이난 (a city of China) · yue 淮南 (a city of China) · ru Хуайна́нь (a city of China)