Wu-Han

See also: Wuhan, Wǔhàn, Wu-han, and Wu Han

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 武漢／武汉 (Wǔ Hàn) Wade–Giles romanization Wu³-Han⁴.

Proper noun

Wu-Han

1. Alternative spelling of Wuhan
   • 1926, Lucian Swift Kirtland, Finding the Worth While in the Orient‎^[1], New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, →OCLC, page 192:

     A stream called the Han River separates Hankow from Hanyang, and these two towns, together with Wu-chang across the Yangtse, are known as the Wu-Han cities. The steel mills, which are often referred to as the "Hankow mills," are at Hanyang.

   • 1929 April 6, “Hankow in Hands of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek”, in The China Weekly Review‎^[2], volume XLVIII, number 6, →OCLC, page 226, column 1:

     The main forces of the Wu-Han armies were concentrated on the line extending from Yanglo to Hsiaokwan by way of Huangpi.

   • 1969, Dun J. Li, editor, The Road to Communism: China Since 1912‎^[3], Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:

     The other day I learned from a newspaper report that practically all of the 200 Communists who had been executed in Wu-Han were twenty-five or below and that the majority of them had been girls.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wu-Han.