Handan
Syllables: Han·dan
Handan proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
Proper noun
Handan
- A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
- Sometime in the afternoon, we reached Hantan, a town of forty thousand people along the now defunct Peiping-Hankow Railway. Although the first real city I had seen since leaving Kuomintang areas, Hantan was only half alive.[1949, Jack Belden, “Traveling Companions”, in China Shakes the World, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 38
- The coking-coal center of Fengfeng in southern Hopei, for example, was among the first places designated as a mining district, about 1951, and was raised to the status of city in 1954. (Two years later, it was incorporated into the expanding urban complex of Hantan.)[1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71, Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 317
Handan meaning in Hindi, Arabic and Vietnamese
Handan in Hindi
- a prefecture-level city in north China
- हानदान hāndān
Handan in Arabic
- a prefecture-level city in north China
- هَانْدَان handān, خَانْدَان ḵandān
Handan in Vietnamese
- a prefecture-level city in north China
- Hàm Đan
Examples of Handan in a sentence
- Xiufen Xie, 53, was born in a village near Handan City, Hebei Province, China.2001, “People with Disabilities”, in Falun Gong Stories: A Journey to Ultimate Health, Golden Lotus Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37:
- At age 20, Tian enlisted in the army, and nine years later she joined the police force of Handan, a city 300 miles south of Beijing.2014 December 1, William Wan, “Once a cop, now an outcast: A Chinese tale of abuse and a craving for justice”, in The Washington Post...
Forms of Handan
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Origin of Handan
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邯鄲 /邯郸 (Hándān).
Questions about Handan
- What does Handan mean?
- Handan means a prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
- What is Handan in Hindi?
- Handan in Hindi is हानदान (hāndān). See Handan meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use Handan in a sentence?
- Xiufen Xie, 53, was born in a village near Handan City, Hebei Province, China.
- What part of speech is Handan?
- Handan is a proper noun.
Words near Handan in the dictionary
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