Handan

handan English Alternative forms en Han-tan Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 邯鄲. Pronunciation hän′dän′Hantan 756 2Han-tan or Han·tan 308 1 en Han dan Proper noun en prefecture-level city p/Hebei c/China. en 1949 Jack Belden Jack Belden Traveling Companions China Shakes the World https://archive.org/details/chinashakesworld00beld/ Harper & Brothers 1127466 38 https://archive.org/details/chinashakesworld00beld/page/38/ Sometime in the afternoon, we reached Hantan, a town of forty thousand people along the now defunct Peiping-Hankow Railway. Although the first real city I had seen since leaving Kuomintang areas, Hantan was only half alive. on en 1972 Theodore Shabad China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ w:Praeger Publishers 71-178868 482667885 317 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/317/ The coking-coal center of Fengfeng in southern Hopei, for example, was among the first places designated as a mining district, about 1951, and was raised to the status of city in 1954. (Two years later, it was incorporated into the expanding urban complex of Hantan.) on en 2001 People with Disabilities Falun Gong Stories: A Journey to Ultimate Health https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781931035057/ Golden Lotus Press 1-931035-05-9 155384434 37 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781931035057/page/37/ Xiufen Xie, 53, was born in a village near Handan City, Hebei Province, China. Her story was originally published in an official Chinese newspaper in 1998. en December 1, 2014 William Wan Once a cop, now an outcast: A Chinese tale of abuse and a craving for justice w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20141202224417/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/once-a-cop-now-an-outcast-a-chinese-tale-of-abuse-and-a-craving-for-justice/2014/12/01/243ee950-5dde-11e4-827b-2d813561bdfd_story.html 02 December 2014 0190-8286 2269358 World At age 20, Tian enlisted in the army, and nine years later she joined the police force of Handan, a city 300 miles south of Beijing. Translations a prefecture-level city in north China Arabic: ar هَانْدَان m handān, ar خَانْدَان m ḵandān Chinese: Cantonese: yue 邯鄲 Mandarin: cmn 邯鄲 Hándān Hindi: hi हानदान Japanese: ja 邯鄲 かんたん, Kantan Korean: ko ^한단(邯鄲) Macedonian: mk Хандан m Russian: ru Ханьда́нь m Vietnamese: vi Hàm Đan References Further reading en 1998 Handan 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 1228 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1228/ 3 Turkish Etymology From fa-cls خندان xandān laughing. Proper noun tr female Persian