Wu-han

See also: Wuhan, Wu Han, and Wǔhàn

English

Map including WU-HAN (DMA, 1972)

Etymology

From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 武漢／武汉 (Wu³-han⁴).

Proper noun

Wu-han

1. Alternative spelling of Wuhan
   • 1948 March, W. Robert Moore, “Along the Yangtze, Main Street of China”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[1], volume XCIII, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 341:

     At the moment much industry of the Wu-han Cities is at a standstill.

   • 1965, James Cameron, Here is Your Enemy‎^[2], Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 16–17:

     My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity.

   • 1967, Yuan-li Wu, The Spatial Economy of Communist China‎^[3], Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192:

     Logically, coal should have been imported from the P’ing-ting-shan mine which is far closer to the Wu-han market.

   • 1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[4], volume 11, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 902, column 1:

     The population is mostly concentrated in the eastern lowlands where the Han river joins the Yangtze at the great tri-city metropolis of Wu-han (q.v.).

   • 1975, Wu-han (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities)‎^[5], Central Intelligence Agency, page 2:

     The Wu-han cities are physically separated by the rivers: Han-k'ou and Han-yang are located on the left bank of the Yangtze and north and south of the Han Shui, respectively; Wu-ch'ang lies on the right bank of the Yangtze.

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

Translations

Wuhan — see Wuhan

Further reading

• “Wu-han”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Wu-han” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.