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Nan'ao
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Nán'ào nán'áo
English
Nan'ao County
Alternative forms
en Nan-ao Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - 南澳.
Pronunciation
nän′ou′Namao 1279 3 Namao (näm′ō′), Mandarin Nanao (nän′ou′),Often mistakenly spelled Namoa.
en Nan ao
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Shantou p/Guangdong c/China.
en 1997 John W. Garver The Confrontation Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan's Democratization https://archive.org/details/faceoff00john/ w:University of Washington Press 0-295-97617-9 97-9021 925067396 10314884M 99–100 https://archive.org/details/faceoff00john/page/99/ The force composition of the two PLA concentrations—on the Dongshan-Nan'ao Islands area at the southern end of the Strait and Haitan Island at the northern end-reflected their assigned missions dealing with achievement of air and sea superiority and amphibious assault.
en
Synonyms
from Teochew Postal Romanization en Namoa
Translations
county of Shantou, Guangdong, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 南澳 naam4 ou3
Mandarin: cmn 南澳 Nán'ào
References
Further reading
en 1998 Nan’ao Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2114 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/2114/ 2
Anagrams
en aanno Anona anona
en 2-syllable words