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Hwai

Hwai is the alternative form of Huai.

Meaning of Huai

Proper noun

Huai

  1. A major river in China, about midway between the Yellow River and Yangtze.
    • In 1887, E. H. Parker,¹ writing upon this subject, reported the cost for the southern Huai region as having been formerly Tls. 4000 each, i.e. $2600, but as reduced to Tls. 3600 or $2,340.1912 May, E. T. Williams, “Taxation in China”, in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume XXVI, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 503

Questions about Hwai

What is Hwai the alternative form of?
Hwai is the alternative form of Huai.

Words near Hwai in the dictionary

  1. hwabyung
  2. hwacha
  3. hwachas
  4. Hwadae
  5. hwagwan
  6. Hwai
  7. Hwaian
  8. Hwainan
  9. Hwaining
  10. hwair
  11. hwairs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hwai (page history and authors); Huai (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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