Xiamen

See also: Xiàmén

English

Alternative forms

• Hsiamen, Hsia-men (Wade–Giles)
• Siamen

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廈門／厦門／厦门 (Xiàmén).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃjɑːˈmɛn/

Proper noun

Xiamen

1. A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city in Fujian, in southeastern China.
   • 2017 September 4, “BRICS meets in shadow of North Korea bombshell”, in France 24‎^[3], archived from the original on 04 September 2017, Live news‎^[4]:

     The BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- had gathered in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen hoping to counter accusations that the group of big emerging economies was drifting apart and becoming irrelevant.

   • 2022 September 1, Didi Tang, “Taiwan shoots down Chinese drone”, in The Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 September 2022, World‎^[6]:

     For the past month Beijing has routinely sent drones over the Kinmen islands, which are about six miles from the coastal Chinese city of Xiamen. Recently China started to release high-resolution, close-range drone video of military facilities on Kinmen.

   • 2024 February 28, “China tells Taiwan to explain death of 2 fishermen near Kinmen Islands”, in EFE‎^[7], archived from the original on 29 February 2024‎^[8]:

     After the incident, Taiwan said five Chinese surveillance ships on Monday had entered prohibited or restricted waters of the Kinmen Islands, located a few kilometers from the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen, home to more than 100,000 Taiwanese.

Synonyms

• (from Hokkien) Amoy

Translations

a sub-provincial city in southeastern China

• Arabic: شْيَامِن m (šyāmin)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廈門／厦门 (haa⁶ mun⁴)

  Hakka: 廈門／厦门 (Ha-mùn)

  Hokkien: 廈門／厦门 (zh-min-nan) (Ē-mn̂g, Ēe-mûi)

  Mandarin: 廈門／厦门 (zh) (Xiàmén)

• Finnish: Xiamen
• French: Xiamen (fr), Amoy (fr) m (dated)
• Georgian: სიამენი (siameni)
• Hungarian: Hsziamen (hu)
• Japanese: 廈門 (アモイ, Amoi, シャーメン, Shāmen), アモイ (Amoi)
• Korean: 샤먼 (syameon)
• Macedonian: Шјиамен m (Šjiamen)
• Manchu: ᡥᡳᠶᠠ
  ᠮᡝᠨ (hiya men)
• Portuguese: Xiamen f
• Russian: Сямэ́нь m (Sjamɛ́nʹ), Сямы́нь (ru) m (Sjamýnʹ)
• Spanish: Xiamen
• Vietnamese: Hạ Môn

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiamen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3500, column 3
• “Xiamen”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Xiamen, Amoy, Hsiamen, Hsia-men, Siamen at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Xiamen, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Xiamen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Xiamen”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Xiamen” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• Manxie, Maxine, Mixean, examin

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 廈門／厦门 (Xiàmén).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃi.aˈmẽj̃/ [ʃɪ.aˈmẽɪ̯̃], (faster pronunciation) /ʃjaˈmẽj̃/ [ʃjaˈmẽɪ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃjaˈmɛn/

Proper noun

Xiamen f

1. Xiamen (a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city in Fujian, in southeastern China)