Hsia-lu

English

Map including HSIA-LU (AMS, 1961)

Etymology

From Mandarin 下陸／下陆 (Xiàlù), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsia⁴-lu⁴.

Proper noun

Hsia-lu

1. Alternative form of Xialu
   • 1921, F. R. Tegengren, The Iron Ores and Iron Industry of China (Memiors of the Geological Survey of China)‎^[1], Peking, →OCLC, page 183:

     German engineers were employed to build the railway, to erect a workshop at Hsia-Lu (下陸) and to connect the ore hill by an incline with the terminus of the railway.
     When, in the 22nd year of Kuang Hsü (1896), the Hanyang Irong Works were transferred […]

   • 1952 May, Joseph F. Harrington, Benjamin M. Page, Sources of Iron Ore in Asia (Mineral Trade Notes)‎^[2], number 154, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Mines, →OCLC, page 126:

     Chi-chia-lo iron mines 30°6'N latitude and 114°45'E longitude are 70 kilometers southeast of Hankow on the south side of the Yangtze River in E-chen Hsien. They are 14 kilometers from Chin-niu village and can be reached by road from Hsia-lu station on the Ta-yeh railroad, a distance of 43 kilometers.

Translations

Xialu — see Xialu

Anagrams

• Hailus, Suhail