Huainan

• (from Wade–Giles) Huai-nan

From the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 淮南 (“land[s] south of the Huai River”).

Huainan

1. A prefecture-level city in Anhui, China.
   • 1902, Ernst Faber, Chronological Handbook of the History of China‎, OCLC 4862645, page 185:

     1319 Great fire at Yang 揚 chou ; over 23,300 official and private houses were burnt. All the roads in Shantung and Huainan were flooded.

2. (China, historical) A principality between the Huai and Yangtze rivers during the Han Dynasty.
3. (China) The region of China between the Huai and Yangtze rivers generally.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huainan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1320, column 3
• “Huainan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Huainan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary