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Hwaian
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English
Etymology
From the en zh-postal - of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 淮安.
Proper noun
en Huai'an.
en 1920 Hosea Ballou Morse The Trade and Administration of China https://archive.org/details/tradeandadminist00mors/ Shanghai Longmans, Green and Co. 128 The Kiangsu salt-gabelle (Tls. 120,000) and native customs at Hwaian (Tls. 30,000) took that of the two Foochow customs combined.
en 1922 Sun Yat-sen The International Development of China https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AThe_international_development_of_China_%28IA_developmentchina00suny%29.pdf/178 New York G. P. Putnam's Sons 144 Hwaian. From Hwaian it turns southwestward passing over the southeastern corner of the Hungtse Lake (which will also be reclaimed) to Suyi, in Anhwei.
en 1946 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Volume X https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1946v10/d122 United States Department of State While the Government armies have not been able to destroy the Communist forces in northern Kiangsu, they dealt them a severe blow by taking Hwaian on 17 September. https://web.archive.org/web/20250930061147/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1946v10/d122 30 September 2025
en https://archive.org/details/chinayesterdayto00coye/ 1979 w:Alden Whitman The Political Career of Chou En-lai China Yesterday and Today w:Bantam Books 2nd 9780553149371 441 https://archive.org/details/chinayesterdayto00coye/page/441/ Chou's life bridged traditional and revolutionary China. He was born in the waning years of the Manchu Dynasty, in 1898—the exact date is unclear— in the eastern city of Hwaian, in Kiangsu Province.
en 2005 Marylou Morano Kjelle "Spook Baby" w:Katherine Paterson https://archive.org/details/katherinepaterso0000kjel/ Classic StoryTellers Hockessin, Delaware Mitchell Lane Publishers 1-58415-268-0 2003024137 54079818 14 https://archive.org/details/katherinepaterso0000kjel/page/14/ She spent her very early years in the ancient city of Hwaian (now spelled Huaian) in the eastern section of China. Hwaian sits on the banks of the Grand Canal, the world's oldest and longest artificial waterway at more than 1000 miles.
en December 2010 978-1-59328-277-6 A Foreign Devil in China John Pollock World Wide Publications 41 In the spring of 1917 Nelson knew enough Chinese to take the big clinic at the larger, rich city of Hwaian, ten miles south on the Grand Canal.
Anagrams
en aahinw haniwa