Xiantao

See also: xiāntáo

English

Alternative forms

• Hsien-t'ao (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 仙桃 (Xiāntáo).

Proper noun

Xiantao

1. A sub-prefectural city in Hubei, China.
   • 1981 July, Rewi Alley, “Flood Strikes again in Hubei”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[1], volume XX, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13:

     Wuhan grows steadily, changing its face quite a bit each year one comes. Hanyang spreads out, and Mianyang, where we halted for a meal and rest, at its county town of Xiantao, which is now becoming a modern city.

   • 2001 February, Paul Hattaway, China's Unreached Cities‎^[2], volume 1, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Darawan Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100:

     Residing on the banks of the Hanshui River in south-central Hubei Province are more than 1.8 million inhabitants of Xiantao City. The central city area itself may only have about 250,000 people, but Xiantao has jurisdiction over a number of sprawling suburbs and surrounding villages which pushes its population up. Because of improved roads, Xiantao is now only a 50-minute drive from the provincial capital, Wuhan.

   • 2016 June 27, Megha Rajagopalan, “China city shuts down waste-burning plant project over protests”, in Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 28 June 2016:

     The mayor of a city in central China made a rare public address calling for calm after thousands of people protested against a waste incineration project over fears it would damage the environment and residents' health. […]
     The city of Xiantao, in Hubei province, said on Sunday it would suspend the project but protests continued on Monday.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xiantao.

Translations

sub-prefecture-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仙桃 (zh) (Xiāntáo)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiantao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 3
• Xiantao, Hsien-tao at Google Ngram Viewer