Hui'an
Syllables: Hui·an/(ˈ)hweɪˈɑn/
Hui'an proper noun: a county of Quanzhou, Fujian, China.
Proper noun
Hui'an
- A county of Quanzhou, Fujian, China.
- When I first watched The Twin Bracelets in 1993 in the United States, I was skeptical of its being marketed as a lesbian film. After several years of fieldwork in eastern Hui’an County, a coastal region of southeast China, where the story ostensibly takes place, I became more convinced that the...2012, Sara L. Friedman, “Another Kind of Love?”, in Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia, Duke University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 234
Forms of Hui'an
| alternative form | Huian |
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Origin of Hui'an
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 惠安 (Huì'ān).
Questions about Hui'an
- What does Hui'an mean?
- Hui'an means a county of Quanzhou, Fujian, China.
- What part of speech is Hui'an?
- Hui'an is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Hui'an?
- Hui'an is pronounced /(ˈ)hweɪˈɑn/.
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