Citations:化人

Chinese citations of 化人 (huàrén)

Noun: “Spaniard”

• 化人住 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

  From: Selden Map [Link], Early 1600s

  Huàrén zhù [Pinyin]

  Spaniards live here

• 1626-1642, Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum, Manila: University of Santo Tomás Archives, page 213:

  "Español hûalāng 番人 (huán lāng │ quiere decir barbaro, dígase)"

  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• 1873, Carstairs Douglas, Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, London: Presbyterian Church of England, page 142:

  "hoà (Cn.) hoà-lâng, Spaniards, said esp. by people who have been at Manila."

Adjective: “Spanish”

• 化人番在此
  港往來呂宋 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  化人番在此
  港往来吕宋 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

  From: Selden Map [Link], Early 1600s

  Huàrén fān zài cǐ
  Gǎng wǎnglái lǚsòng [Pinyin]

  Spanish foreigners go back and forth from this harbour to Luzon (Manila)

• 化人筆 [Philippine Hokkien, trad.]
  化人笔 [Philippine Hokkien, simp.]

  From: Arte de la Lengua Chiõ Chiu, 1620

  hòa-lâng pit [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

  "hǔalāng pit"
  "con pluma Español"
  with Spanish pen

• 1941, Vicente Lim, Chinese-English-Tagalog-Spanish Business Conversation and Social Contact with Amoy Pronunciation (overall work in Literary Chinese, Hokkien, English, Tagalog, and Spanish), Manila: Poc Bon Book Co., page 100:

  此是西班牙之牛油乎。 chiong ge si hua lang gu iu a m si? Is this Spanish butter? is dis Spanish bater? Ito po bang mantekiliya sa España. Es este mantequilla de España?