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Hsiaokan
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Hsiao-kan
English
Etymology
From en cmn ^孝感 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hsiao⁴-kan³.
Proper noun
en Xiaogan.
en 1912 Percy Horace Kent The Struggle for Hankow The Passing of the Manchus https://archive.org/details/cu31924021495258/ w:Longmans, Green & Co. 906325465 135 https://archive.org/details/cu31924021495258/page/n168/ By October the 24th, headquarters had passed from Huayuan to Hsiaokan, only 45 miles from Hankow, and in a telegram dated from that place on October 25th it was announced by General Yin Ch'ang that the main body of the Imperialists had moved forward to Niehkow, some six or seven miles from Kilometre Ten, and that he himself was following.
en 1937 w:Hollington Tong Chiang Kai-shek Soldier And Statesman https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.179658/ 1 Shanghai China Publishing Company 1151219884 14295729M 114 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.179658/page/n156/ As Hanyang is of great importance on account of the arsenal being located in that area, Wu wished to recapture it, but Chin Yun-ao urged him to retreat to Hsiaokan along the Peking-Hankow Railway, and to let Liu Tso-lung occupy Hankow.
en 1998 Noel Gibbard Griffith John: Apostle to Central China https://archive.org/details/griffithjohnapos0000gibb/ w:Bryntirion Press 185049150X 40544121 143 https://archive.org/details/griffithjohnapos0000gibb/page/143/ Dr Walton arrived in 1893, and the two men made preparations to open a hospital at Hsiaokan, encouraged by a gift of £200 for building purposes from the Mission to Lepers, with a promise of £50 p.a. for costs.
Translations
Xiaogan