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Hsiamen

Hsiamen 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 Hsiamen

From Mandarin 廈門／厦门 (Xiàmén) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsia⁴-mên².

Questions about Hsiamen

What is Hsiamen the alternative form of?
Hsiamen is the alternative form of Xiamen.

Words near Hsiamen in the dictionary

  1. Hsia
  2. Hsia-lu
  3. Hsia-men
  4. Hsia-p'u
  5. Hsialuho
  6. Hsiamen
  7. Hsian
  8. Hsiang
  9. Hsiang Kang
  10. Hsiang-ch'eng
  11. Hsiang-t'an

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsiamen (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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