An-hui

See also: Anhui

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 安徽 (Ānhuī) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-hui¹.[1]

Pronunciation

  • enPR: änʹhwēʹ

Proper noun

An-hui

  1. Alternative form of Anhui
    • 1970, Joseph B. R. Whitney, China: Area, Administration, and Nation Building, Department of Geography, University of Chicago, OCLC 631426854, page 42:
      The wide boundary impress traversing northern An-hui, although not currently used as a provincial demarcation, follows the low hills named the Huai-yang Shan separating Huai and Yellow River drainage from that of the Yangtze.
    • 2004 [2002], François Cheng, Timothy Bent, transl., Green Mountain, White Cloud, New York: St. Martin's Press, translation of L'éternité n'est pas de trop, →ISBN, OCLC 53375914, page 20:
      When he arrived in An-hui, near the city of Xuan-cheng, he decided out of desperation to seek shelter in a monastery on Mount Huang.

Translations

References

  1. Anhui, Wade-Giles romanization An-hui, in Encyclopædia Britannica

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