Hsiaokan
Hsiaokan is the alternative form of Xiaogan.
Meaning of Xiaogan
Proper noun
Xiaogan
- 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 Hsiaokan
From Mandarin 孝感 (Xiàogǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsiao⁴-kan³.
Questions about Hsiaokan
- What is Hsiaokan the alternative form of?
- Hsiaokan is the alternative form of Xiaogan.
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