Huai'an
See also: Huai-an
English
Alternative forms
- (postal romanization) Hwaian
- (from Wade–Giles) Huai-an
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 淮安 (Huái'ān).
Proper noun
Huai'an
- A prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu, in eastern China.
- 1982, Bai Shouyi (白寿彝), editor, An Outline History of China (中国通史纲要) (China Knowledge Series), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, page 103:
- In 486 B.C., King Fu Chai of Wu, in an attempt to seek supremacy in the north, constructed the Han Canal from Jiangdu to Huai'an, both in modern Jiangsu Province, so that the Huaihe River was linked with the Changjiang River.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huai'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1320, column 2
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