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Hsiao-kan

Hsiao-kan is the alternative form of Xiaogan.

Meaning of Xiaogan

Proper noun

Xiaogan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hubei, in central China.
    • When the planes do not come I am always consumed with curiosity as to where they do go. The urgent alarm means that they are within thirty miles of Hankow. I heard a rumour that they went to Siaokan north of Hankow on the railway. There is an air field there too.[1938 March 20, Agnes Moncrieff, “Hankow and the Godown, January-March 1938”, in Barbara Francis, editor, You Do Not travel in China at the Full Moon: Agnes Moncrieff's Letters from China, 1930-1945...

Origin of Hsiao-kan

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 孝感 (Hsiao⁴-kan³).

Questions about Hsiao-kan

What is Hsiao-kan the alternative form of?
Hsiao-kan is the alternative form of Xiaogan.

Words near Hsiao-kan in the dictionary

  1. Hsiangfen
  2. hsianghualite
  3. Hsiangtan
  4. Hsiao
  5. Hsiao-chuan
  6. Hsiao-kan
  7. Hsiaokan
  8. Hsiaokang
  9. Hsiaos
  10. Hsiapu
  11. Hsias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsiao-kan (page history and authors); Xiaogan (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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