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Nan'an
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nanan nán'àn Nanan Nán'ān
English
Nan'an, Fujian
Alternative forms
en Nan-an Wade-Giles
Pronunciation
nän′än′Naman 1279 3 Naman (näm′än′), Mandarin Nanan (nän′än′),
en Nan an
Etymology 1
From the pinyin romanization of the en cmn - 南安.
Proper noun
en county-level city prefecture-level city/Quanzhou p/Fujian c/China.
Translations
county-level city in eastern China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 南安 naam4 on1
Hokkien: nan-hbl 南安 Lâm-oaⁿ
Mandarin: cmn 南安 Nán'ān
Japanese: ja
Korean: ko
Further reading
en 1998 Nan’an 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
Etymology 2
From the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 南岸 Nán'àn.
Proper noun
en district direct-administered municipality/Chongqing c/China.
en 2004 Intercontinental's Best of China https://archive.org/details/intercontinental0000lawe/ 978-7-5085-0429-2 253780866 9840088M 403 https://archive.org/details/intercontinental0000lawe/page/403/ Chicken is cooked in a variety of ways and two popular dishes are spicy chicken (làzi jī zh 辣子鸡) and a spicy chicken appetizer (kǒushuǐ jī zh 口水鸡) that's served cold. Chongqing's spring chicken (mineral water spring, not the season) is a local specialty. It's so good there's a whole street (nánshān quánshuǐjī yītiáojiē zh 南山泉水鸡一条街) dedicated to serving it. The chickens can be found by Nanshan Park at Huangjueya in the Nan'an District (zh 南岸区黄桷垭南山公园).
en 2013 w:Noah Feldman A Glimpse into the New China Cool War: The Future of Global Competition https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780812992748/ New York w:Random House 978-0-8129-9274-8 2013007907 827973784 25759721M 56 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780812992748/page/56/ On November 14, 2011, Heywood had checked in to the Lucky Holiday Hotel in the Nan'an district of Chongqing. Some twenty-six hours later, he was found dead in his hotel room. The apparent cause of death was alcohol poisoning. Heywood's wife traveled from their home in Beijing to Chongqing, and with her agreement, Heywood's body was cremated. There was no autopsy.
en 20 August 2020 Phoebe Zhang Chinese megacity Chongqing braces for record flood https://web.archive.org/web/20200820100209/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3098124/chinese-megacity-chongqing-braces-record-flood 20 August 2020 w:South China Morning Post Several areas along Nanbin Road in Nanan district were flooded, with water rushing into the main halls of a Hilton Hotel, according to footage on Pear Video. on
en
Translations
district
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 南岸
Mandarin: cmn 南岸 Nán'àn
Japanese: ja
References
Anagrams
en aannn Annan Nanna nanna
en 2-syllable words