Luonan

See also: Luònán and luònàn

English

Alternative forms

• Lo-nan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 洛南 (Luònán).

Proper noun

Luonan

1. A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, in northwest China.
   • 1967, Journal of the Faculty of Science of the University of Tokyo: Geology, Minerology, Geography, Seismology‎^[1], volume 16, →OCLC, page 449:

     The northern zone is more or less expanded easterly from Luonan in Shensi into Honan from Kung in the north to Lushan in the south.

   • 1985, Huang Zongying, “The Flight of the Wild-Geese”, in Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers‎^[2], Panda Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 57:

     Yet why had her place of work, the medicinal herb company in Luonan County, strongly recommended her?

   • 1987, Renbo Wang, “General Comments on Chinese Funerary Sculpture”, in The Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the People's Republic of China‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 39:

     Early pottery was decorated both by painting and by manipulation of the clay itself with stamped, scratched, carved, and appliqued ornament. The motifs included relief images of human beings and animals, especially birds and human faces and heads. A jar discovered in 1953 in Luonan County, Shaanxi Province (cat. no. 1), decorated with the image of a human head, and the sculpture of a human head found in Huangling, Shaanxi (cat. no. 2), are of this type.

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

Translations

a county in northwest China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洛南 (zh) (Luònán)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Luonan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1806, column 1

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 珞南 (Luònán).

Proper noun

Luonan

1. A subdistrict of Hongshan district, Wuhan, Hubei, in central China.
   • 2021 March, Xiaoyan Liu, Saini Yang, Tao Ye, Rui An, Cuizhen Chen, “A new approach to estimating flood-affected populations by combining mobility patterns with multi-source data: A case study of Wuhan, China”, in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction‎^[5], volume 55, →DOI:

     In the July 6 flood, most sub-districts are dominated by diverted commuters and the unaffected population. The share of disconnected commuters is relatively small, and only several sub-districts in the southeast and northwest hold a bit large proportion. The sub-districts in which more than half of populations are affected are located primarily on the edge of the study area (especially in the south and west). Luonan and Guanshan are the most seriously affected sub-districts, as they have the largest percentages and numbers of diverted and disconnected commuters.

Translations

a subdistrict in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 珞南 (Luònán)

Anagrams

• annulo-, nounal