Nan-hai
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Mandarin 南海 (Nánhǎi) Wade–Giles pronunciation: Nan²-hai³.
Proper noun[edit]
Nan-hai
- Alternative form of Nanhai (a district of Foshan, Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China).
- 1956, Li Chien-lung, translated by Ssu-yu Teng and Jeremy Hills, The Political History of China, 1840-1928[1], D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., page 145:
- As for K’ang Yu-wei, his first given name was Tsu-i. He was born in 1858, in the district of Nan-hai, Kwangtung, into an old and aristocratic family which for generations had been noted for its Neo-Confucian scholarship.
- 1975, Marjorie Topley, “Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung”, in Margery Wolf, Roxane Witke, editors, Women in Chinese Society[2], Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:
- In 1939 approximately 70 percent of Shun-te's land area was devoted to this economy, and about 90 percent of the population was engaged in one or another aspect of sericulture. Nan-hai had close to one-half the mulberry acreage of Shun-te; a little less than half its population was engaged in sericulture.
- 1990, A. F. Price, Wong Mou-lam, transl., The Diamond Sūtra and the Sūtra of Hui-neng[3], Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:
- Bhikshu Chih-tao, a native of Nan-hai of Kwangtung, came to the patriarch for instruction, saying, "Since I joined the order I have read the Mahāparinirvāna-sūtra for more than ten years, but I have not yet grasped its main idea. Will you please teach me?"
Translations[edit]
Nanhui — see Nanhui