Huainan

See also: Huáinán and Huai-nan

English

Alternative forms

• Huai-nan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Huainan

1. A prefecture-level city in Anhui, China.
   • 1902, Ernst Faber, Chronological Handbook of the History of China‎^[1], →OCLC, 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.

   • 2022 March 27, Luna Sun, “Private industrial enterprises in China see profits fall in first two months of the year”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], archived from the original on 27 March 2022, China Economy‎^[3]:

     After reporting one positive case, Huainan, a city of nearly 3.5 million people in Anhui province that borders Shanghai, ordered residents not to leave unless they can provide a negative test result taken within the past 48 hours.

   • 2022 June 20, Daisuke Wakabayashi, Joy Dong, “China’s Once-Sizzling Property Market Has Started to Cool”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 June 2022, Business‎^[5]:

     Huainan, a city in Anhui Province, ordered banks to extend more money and shorten loan approval times, as well as lower the mortgage rates and down payment requirements for first-time buyers.

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.

Translations

a city of China

• Arabic: خْوَايْنَان m (ḵwaynān), هْوَايْنَان m (hwaynān)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淮南 (zh) (Huáinán)

• Hungarian: Huajnan (hu)
• Japanese: 淮南 (わいなん, Wainan)
• Korean: 화이난 (Hwainan)
• Russian: Хуайна́нь m (Xuajnánʹ)
• Vietnamese: Hoài Nam

Further reading

• “Huainan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Huainan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huainan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1320, column 3