Anbu
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See also: ānbù
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Anbu
- A town in Chao'an district, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.
- [1936, K. Chimin Wong [王吉民], Wu Lien-teh [伍連德], “Period 1866-1879. Adoption of new methods for medical work”, in History of Chinese Medicine: Being a Chronicle of Medical Happenings in China from Ancient Times to the Present Period[1], 2nd edition, Shanghai: National Quarantine Service, published 1973, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 423:
- Along with the new hospital, dispensaries were opened at Ampow (菴埠) and Tat-hau-pow (達濠埠), 9 miles distant from the city; each one was visited every alternate week. They were kept open until 1872; the dispensary at Tat-hau-pow was again started in 1875.]
- 2017, Wang Zheng, “Chen Bo'er and the Feminist Paradigm of Socialist Film”, in Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1964[2], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144:
- Chen Bo'er, originally named Chen Shunhua, was born to a wealthy merchant’s family in Anbu, a small town in Chaoan County, Guangdong, in 1907.
Synonyms
[edit]- (from Cantonese, Postal Romanization) Ampow