Xiamen

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Etymology

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From the Hanyu Pinyin[1][2] romanization of the Mandarin 廈門厦門厦门 (Xiàmén).

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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.

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References

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  1. ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 479:The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, [] Hsia-men (Xiamen) 厦門
  2. ^ Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈) (2015) “Transliteration Tables”, in Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan[2], Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 428:Transliterations used in the text / Hanyu pinyin / Chinese characters or Japanese kanji [] Amoy (Hsiamen) / Xiamen / 廈門

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Mandarin 廈門厦门 (Xiàmén).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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Xiamen f

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