Nan'ao

See also: Nán'ào and nán'áo

English

Alternative forms

• Nan-ao (Wade–Giles)
• Namoa (Postal Romanization, from Cantonese)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南澳 (Nán'ào).

Pronunciation

• enPR: nänʹouʹ

Proper noun

Nan'ao

1. A county of Shantou, Guangdong, China.
   • 1997, John W. Garver, “The Confrontation”, in Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan's Democratization‎^[1], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 99–100:

     The force composition of the two PLA concentrations—on the Dongshan-Nan'ao Islands area at the southern end of the Strait and Haitan Island at the northern end-reflected their assigned missions dealing with achievement of air and sea superiority and amphibious assault.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nan'ao.

Translations

county of Shantou, Guangdong, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 南澳 (naam⁴ ou³)

  Mandarin: 南澳 (zh) (Nán'ào)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Namao”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1279, column 3: “Often mistakenly spelled Namoa.”
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Nan’ao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2114, column 2

Anagrams

• Anona, anona