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Hwainan

Hwainan 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.

Questions about Hwainan

What is Hwainan the alternative form of?
Hwainan is the alternative form of Huainan.

Words near Hwainan in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hwainan (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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