Nan'an

See also: nanan, nán'àn, Nanan, and Nán'ān

English

Alternative forms

• Nan-an (Wade–Giles)

Etymology 1

From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 南安 (Nán'ān).

Proper noun

Nan'an

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

Translations

county-level city in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 南安 (naam⁴ on¹)

  Hokkien: 南安 (Lâm-oaⁿ)

  Mandarin: 南安 (zh) (Nán'ān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Nan’an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[1], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2114, column 2

Etymology 2

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 南岸 (Nán'àn).

Proper noun

Nan'an

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • 2004, Intercontinental's Best of China‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 403:

     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 quánshuǐjī yītiáojiē 南山泉水鸡一条街) dedicated to serving it. The chickens can be found by Nanshan Park at Huangjueya in the Nan'an District (南岸区黄桷垭南山公园).

   • 2013, Noah Feldman, “A Glimpse into the New China”, in Cool War: The Future of Global Competition‎^[3], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 56:

     On November 14, 2011, Heywood had checked in to the Lucky Holiday Hotel in the Nan'an district of Chongqing. Some twenty-six hours later, he was found dead in his hotel room. The apparent cause of death was alcohol poisoning. Heywood's wife traveled from their home in Beijing to Chongqing, and with her agreement, Heywood's body was cremated. There was no autopsy.

   • [2020 August 20, Phoebe Zhang, “Chinese megacity Chongqing braces for record flood”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], archived from the original on 20 August 2020:

     Several areas along Nanbin Road in Nanan district were flooded, with water rushing into the main halls of a Hilton Hotel, according to footage on Pear Video.]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nan'an.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南岸 (zh) (Nán'àn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Annan, Nanna, nanna