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Hung-an

Hung-an is the alternative form of Hong'an.

Meaning of Hong'an

Proper noun

Hong'an

  1. A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
    • At the city’s No. 2 Mill, on the other hand, the management signed a collective contract with the neighboring Hong’an county government, thus utilizing bureaucratic channels, in the belief that a group from one home place would be “easier to control.”1997, Xiaobo Lü, Elizabeth J. Perry, editors, Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 199
    Synonyms:
    Huang'an, Huang-an

Origin of Hung-an

From Mandarin 紅安 /红安 (Hóng'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Hung²-an¹.

Questions about Hung-an

What is Hung-an the alternative form of?
Hung-an is the alternative form of Hong'an.

Words near Hung-an in the dictionary

  1. hung upon
  2. hung wei ping
  3. hung with
  4. hung, drawn and quartered
  5. hung, drew and quartered
  6. Hung-an
  7. Hung-hu
  8. hung-over
  9. Hung-shan
  10. hung-wei-ping
  11. Hung.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hung-an (page history and authors); Hong'an (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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