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Nan-hai

Nan-hai is the alternative form of Nanhai.

Meaning of Nanhai

Proper noun

Nanhai

  1. A district of Foshan, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China.
    • A big poster recently appeared in Nanhai County of Kwangtung Province condemning the unpardonable crimes committed by Mao Tse-tung during his notorious lifetime, according to an intelligence source from behind the Iron Curtain.
    • Entitled "Our debt of blood must be repaid in kind by pro-Mao reptiles," the poster was put on a "revolutionary martyrs' shrine" at Tali Park in Nanhai County on May 16.1980 July 6, “Poster attack”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXI, number 26, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3
  2. A town in Songzi, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
  3. A lake in Zhongnanhai, Xicheng district, Beijing, China.
    • Grouped around Chung Hai (Middle lake) and Nan Hai (South lake), just west of the Palace museum, are the government buildings of the Chinese Communist regime.[1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 533, column 1

Origin of Nan-hai

Borrowed from Mandarin 南海 (Nánhǎi) Wade–Giles pronunciation: Nan²-hai³.

Questions about Nan-hai

What is Nan-hai the alternative form of?
Nan-hai is the alternative form of Nanhai.

Words near Nan-hai in the dictionary

  1. Nan-an
  2. Nan-ch'ang
  3. Nan-ch'uan
  4. Nan-ch'ung
  5. Nan-ching
  6. Nan-hai
  7. Nan-jih
  8. Nan-ning
  9. Nan-sha
  10. Nan-t'ou
  11. Nan-t'ung

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