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Hong'an

Syllables: Hong·an

Hong'an proper noun: a county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

Hong'an

  1. A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
    • At the city’s No. 2 Mill, on the other hand, the management signed a collective contract with the neighboring Hong’an county government, thus utilizing bureaucratic channels, in the belief that a group from one home place would be “easier to control.”1997, Xiaobo Lü, Elizabeth J. Perry, editors, Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 199
    • [...]villages in Hong'an County, Hubei had expended nearly 200,000 yuan in 1983 for making "clan dragon-lanterns" (xingshi longdeng).2002, Elizabeth J. Perry, Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China, published 2015, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 295
    Synonyms:
    Huang'an, Huang-an

Synonyms of Hong'an

Forms of Hong'an

alternative formHung-an
alternative formHungan

Origin of Hong'an

c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅安 /红安 (Hóng'ān).

Questions about Hong'an

What does Hong'an mean?
Hong'an means a county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
What part of speech is Hong'an?
Hong'an is a proper noun.

Words near Hong'an in the dictionary

  1. Hong Konger
  2. Hong Kongers
  3. Hong Kongese
  4. Hong Kongite
  5. Hong Kongites
  6. Hong'an
  7. Hong-Kong
  8. Hongapore
  9. hongbao
  10. hongbaos
  11. HongCouver

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