Xiaonan

See also: xiàonán

English

Alternative forms

• Hsiao-nan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孝南 (Xiàonán).

Proper noun

Xiaonan

1. A district of Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
   • 2001, People's Republic of China: Torture, a Growing Scourge in China- Time for Action‎^[1], Amnesty International, →OCLC, page 12:

     In March 2000 , the party secretary of Yanglin Guanli District, Xiaogang Township, Hubei Province, was sentenced by Xiaonan District Court to two years "control" for illegal detention and was ordered to pay medical expenses and direct economic losses of 1,560 Yuan to his victims.

   • 2020 February 10, “Xiaogan city sets up 24-hour hotline platform for citizens during outbreak”, in mingmei, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[2], archived from the original on February 11, 2020:

     A patient with fever (L), who called the hotline "96120" for help, receives medical checks at Wolongxiang pulic health clinic at Xiaonan District of Xiaogan, central China's Hubei Province, on Feb. 9, 2020.

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

Translations

district in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孝南 (zh) (Xiàonán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Xiaonan, Hsiao-nan, Hsiaonan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.