Anbu

See also: ānbù

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 庵埠／菴埠 (Ānbù).

Proper noun

Anbu

1. A town in Chao'an district, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.
   • [1936, K. Chimin Wong, Wu Lien-teh, “Period 1866-1879. Adoption of new methods for medical work”, in History of Chinese Medicine: Being a Chronicle of Medical Happenings in China from Ancient Times to the Present Period‎^[1], 2nd edition, Shanghai: National Quarantine Service, published 1973, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 423:

     Along with the new hospital, dispensaries were opened at Ampow (菴埠) and Tat-hau-pow (達濠埠), 9 miles distant from the city; each one was visited every alternate week. They were kept open until 1872; the dispensary at Tat-hau-pow was again started in 1875.]

   • 2017, Wang Zheng, “Chen Bo'er and the Feminist Paradigm of Socialist Film”, in Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1964‎^[2], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144:

     Chen Bo'er, originally named Chen Shunhua, was born to a wealthy merchant’s family in Anbu, a small town in Chaoan County, Guangdong, in 1907.

Synonyms

• (from Cantonese, Postal Romanization) Ampow

Translations

town

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 庵埠／菴埠 (Ānbù)

Anagrams

• Baun, Banu, Abun, Nabu, Nuba, abun, Buna