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Nan-an

Nan-an is the alternative form of Nan'an.

Meaning of Nan'an

Proper noun (1)

Nan'an

  1. A county-level city of Quanzhou, Fujian, China.

Proper noun (2)

Nan'an

  1. A district of Chongqing, China.
    • Chicken is cooked in a variety of ways and two popular dishes are spicy chicken (làzi jī 辣子鸡) and a spicy chicken appetizer (kǒushuǐ jī 口水鸡) that's served cold. Chongqing's spring chicken (mineral water spring, not the season) is a local specialty. It's so good there's a whole street (nánshān...2004, Intercontinental's Best of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 403

Origin of Nan-an

Borrowed from Mandarin 南安 (Nán'ān) Wade–Giles pronunciation: Nan²-an¹.

Questions about Nan-an

What is Nan-an the alternative form of?
Nan-an is the alternative form of Nan'an.

Words near Nan-an in the dictionary

  1. Nan Mountains
  2. Nan Yang
  3. Nan'an
  4. Nan'ao
  5. Nan'yō
  6. Nan-an
  7. Nan-ch'ang
  8. Nan-ch'uan
  9. Nan-ch'ung
  10. Nan-ching
  11. Nan-hai

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