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Hsia-men

Hsia-men is the alternative form of Xiamen.

Meaning of Xiamen

Proper noun

Xiamen

  1. A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city of Fujian, in southeastern China.
    • The BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- had gathered in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen hoping to counter accusations that the group of big emerging economies was drifting apart and becoming irrelevant.2017 September 4, “BRICS meets in shadow of North Korea bombshell”, in France 24, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2017, Live news
    Synonyms:
    Amoy

Origin of Hsia-men

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 廈門 /厦門 /厦门 (Hsia⁴-mên²).

Questions about Hsia-men

What is Hsia-men the alternative form of?
Hsia-men is the alternative form of Xiamen.

Words near Hsia-men in the dictionary

  1. Hsi-shui
  2. Hsi-tsang
  3. Hsi-tsang Tzu-chih-ch'ü
  4. Hsia
  5. Hsia-lu
  6. Hsia-men
  7. Hsia-p'u
  8. Hsialuho
  9. Hsiamen
  10. Hsian
  11. Hsiang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsia-men (page history and authors); Xiamen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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