Hannan

See also: hännän and hànnán

English

Etymology 1

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hAnnáin (“descendant of Annán”), a personal name of uncertain origin.

Alternative forms

• Hannon

Proper noun

Hannan (plural Hannans)

1. A surname from Irish.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hannan is the 4962^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7086 individuals. Hannan is most common among White (86.99%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hannan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126.

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 漢南／汉南 (Hànnán).

武汉汉南通用机场
WUHAN HANNAN GENERAL AIRPORT

Proper noun

Hannan

1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
   • 2001, Beijing Review‎^[1], volume 44, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29:

     In five years, a large agricultural sightseeing zone will emerge in Hannan District of Wuhan City. The project was launched early this year.
     Hannan District, surrounded by three rivers — the Yangtze River,[...]

   • 2013 August 13, Chris Luo, “Man, 70, deemed murderer by court after killing sick wife in euthanasia case”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 September 2013:

     When an elderly Wuhan man in a wheelchair pushed his sick wife into the Yangtze River and killed her on her request, he never thought he would be a murderer. […]
     Still, the Hannan district court sentenced the 70-year-old to four years of jail for euthanasia in August.

   • 2015, H.B. Zhang, Y.H. Wang, Z.Z. Guo, “Consistent handling approach on multi-temporal land use status data with various differences”, in Zhenqi Hu, editor, Legislation, Technology and Practice of Mine Land Reclamation‎^[3], CRC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 68, column 2:

     For the understanding convenience, in this study, we took the facet figure spot data of the land use status data sets collected in Hannan district of Wuhan city as an example, referred the uniformity treatment flow scheme and introduced the basic steps and the related principles of application of FEM and its expended modules MyFME to conduct uniformity treatment.

   • 2017, X F Xun, L F Mo, H X Tao, “Prediction of the unused land for construction based on multi-classifier fusion”, in Ahmed Mebarki, editor, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning (CEUP2016)‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 241:

     There are three procedures including data preprocessing, tag, and modeling. The first step is the preprocessing including extracting information from the database of land in Hannan district, Wuhan city, Hubei province, China. Next, some parameters and features are calculated.

   • 2020 February 29, Xiao Yu, Shih-Wei Chou, “A Month in Locked-Down Wuhan: A Father's Death, a Sleepless Volunteer and Pressure”, in Voice of America‎^[5], archived from the original on 01 May 2022, COVID-19 Pandemic:

     “He had been hiding it from me and my mom. He wouldn’t talk to us about his physical condition,” said his daughter Yang Jingjing, who had been quarantined in her apartment in Wuhan’s Wuchung district after returning from her parents’ home across town in the Hannan district. “I just want to find my dad.”[...]
     Yang Yuanyun was last seen by a police surveillance camera on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, near Shamao Town in the Hannan district.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hannan.

Translations

district in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漢南／汉南 (zh) (Hànnán)

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