Hsüan-hua
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 宣化 (Xuānhuà) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsüan¹-hua⁴.[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Hsüan-hua
- Alternative form of Xuanhua
- 1967, Kuei-sheng Chang, “Geographical Bases for Industrial Development in Northwestern China”, in Cultural Geography: Selected Readings[1], 2nd printing, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 384:
- At the other end of the Pao-t'ou-Lan-chou railway and further beyond lie the rich deposits at Paiyun-opo near Pao-t’ou, and the Lung-yen iron mines at Hsüan-hua which have already been supplying the steel industry in Peiping.
Translations
[edit]Xuanhua — see Xuanhua
References
[edit]- ^ Xuanhua, Wade-Giles romanization Hsüan-hua, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
[edit]- “Hsüan-hua”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Süanhwa or Hsüan-hua”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1836, column 2
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