Chikan

chikan chīkàn English Chi Kan Town Alternative forms en Ch'ih-k'an Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - 赤坎. Pronunciation chûʹkänʹen 1952 Chikhom Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 393 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/393/ 2 en Chi kan Proper noun en town county-level city/Kaiping prefecture-level city/Jiangmen province/Guangdong c/China. en 28 August 2017 He Huifeng Families who’ve lived in old Chinese town for generations being kicked out to make way for tourists w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20170828010523/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2106677/families-whove-lived-old-chinese-town-generations-being-kicked https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2106677/families-whove-lived-old-chinese-town-generations-being-kicked August 28, 2017 1563-9371 648902513 China Close to 4,000 households are being forced out of a centuries-old town on the western edge of the Pearl River Delta by their local government, which has teamed up with an investment firm to turn it into a tourist attraction.It’s not what the residents of Chikan’s old town expected when the nearby Kaiping diaolous – fortified, multi-storey dwellings – were put on the World Heritage List by Unesco in 2007. Synonyms from Cantonese en Chek Hom, en Chekhom, en Chik Hom, en Chikhom Translations town Chinese: Cantonese: yue 赤坎 Mandarin: cmn 赤坎 Chìkǎn Japanese: ja References Anagrams en achikn Kachin en 2-syllable words