Fu'an

See also: fuan and fú'àn

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 福安 (Fú'ān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuˌɑn/, /-æn/

Proper noun

Fu'an

1. A county-level city in Ningde, Fujian, China, formerly a county.
   • [2012 November 19, Mandy Zuo, “Anger over crash response in Fuan city sparks riot against police”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 28, 2012, China‎^[2]:

     Residents of a Fujian province city smashed an ambulance and overturned three police vans after a car crash over the weekend, as yet another relatively minor incidents resulted in public unrest on the mainland.
     The riot in Fuan city appears to have started on Saturday night after a man driving without a licence fled police and struck three scooters and another car, injuring five people. […]
     Four of the injured crash victims were still in hospital, while the remaining victim had been treated and released according to a statement issued by the publicity department of Ningde , which oversees Fuan.]

   • 2016 [1989 June], Jinping Xi, “Strengthening the Great Unity of All Ethnic Groups- Reflections on Promoting the Common Prosperity of Ethnic Minorities”, in Up and Out of Poverty: Selected Speeches in Fujian‎^[3], Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [4]:

     When I first arrived in Ningde, I went to Tanyang Village, which has been working in partnership with the Ethnic Affairs Commission of Fu’an County. People in the village have managed to lift themselves out of poverty by planting Kyoho grapes. In 1988, their per capita income reached 700 yuan. This is a great success story.

   • 2018 March 27, Nicole Winfield, “Report: Key unofficial bishop in Vatican-China deal detained”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on 18 March 2023‎^[6]:

     Police officials in the city of Fu’an, where Guo is based, as well as the city of Ningde, which oversees Fu’an, said they “did not know” anything about the reported detention.

   • 2021 August 4, “Xi Focus: Rural vitalization in full swing”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[7], archived from the original on 04 August 2021‎^[8]:

     Photo taken on Dec. 31, 2020 shows cameras monitoring the plant diseases and pests at a 5G-assisted smart tea farm in Fu'an City, southeast China's Fujian Province.

Synonyms

• Fogan

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 福安 (zh) (Fú'ān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fu'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1290, column 1