Huang-an

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 黃安／黄安 Wade–Giles romanization: Huang²-an¹.

Proper noun

Huang-an

1. Synonym of Hong'an
   • [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[1], London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14:

     Hoangcheu commands over nine Cities, as Hoangcheu, Lotien, Maching, Hoangpi, Hoanggan, Kixui, Ki, Hoangmui, Hoangci.]

   • [1931 April 20, “CHINA BANDITS PAID TO RELEASE U.S. CHURCH MAN”, in Victoria Daily Times‎^[2], volume 78, number 93, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     Rev. K. N. Tvedt of St. Paul, United States Lutheran United missionary, held captive by Chinese Communists near Hwangan, northern Hupeh, since last October 17, was released yesterday on payment of ransom by the mission.
     The Lutheran mission's home here was advised Mr. Tvedt had arrived at Sungfow, south of Hwangan, en route to Hankow.]

   • 1938, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China‎^[3], Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 553:

     Born in 1886 in Huang-an county, Hupeh, in a large gentry family headed by scholars and teachers, Tung received a classical education and passed the imperial official (Confucian) examinations at the age of sixteen.

   • 1978, Yang, quotee, “The Death of Lin Piao”, in The Chinese Assassin‎^[4], New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:

     I was born in Huang-an County in Hupeh Province in 1934 although I was brought up in Szechuan.

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hwangan or Huang-an”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 819, column 1

Anagrams

• Hungana