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Huai-nan

Huai-nan is the alternative form of Huainan.

Meaning of Huainan

Proper noun

Huainan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
    • 1319 Great fire at Yang 揚 chou ; over 23,300 official and private houses were burnt. All the roads in Shantung and Huainan were flooded.1902, Ernst Faber, Chronological Handbook of the History of China, →OCLC, page 185
  2. (China, historical) A principality between the Huai and Yangtze rivers during the Han Dynasty.
  3. (China) The region of China between the Huai and Yangtze rivers generally.

Origin of Huai-nan

From Mandarin 淮南 (Huáinán), Wade–Giles romanization: Huai²-nan².

Questions about Huai-nan

What is Huai-nan the alternative form of?
Huai-nan is the alternative form of Huainan.

Words near Huai-nan in the dictionary

  1. Huadong Valley
  2. Huai
  3. Huai River
  4. Huai'an
  5. Huai-an
  6. Huai-nan
  7. Huai-pei
  8. Huaibei
  9. Huaibin
  10. Huaide
  11. Huaihua

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Huai-nan (page history and authors); Huainan (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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