An-hui

A form of Anhui — A province in eastern China. Capital: Hefei.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Anhui.

    When he arrived in An-hui, near the city of Xuan-cheng, he decided out of desperation to seek shelter in a monastery on Mount Huang.

    2004 [2002], François Cheng, translated by Timothy Bent, Green Mountain, White Cloud, New York: St. Martin's Press, translation of L'éternité n'est pas de trop, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20
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    The famine in the northern part of the Province of An-hui becomes daily more serious and the funds so far sent by the Red Cross Society are altogether inadequate.

    1911 January 26, “Survey of the World”, in The Independent, volume LXX, number 3243, New York, →OCLC, page 175, column 2

    The wide boundary impress traversing northern An-hui, although not currently used as a provincial demarcation, follows the low hills named the Huai-yang Shan separating Huai and Yellow River drainage from that of the Yangtze.

    1970, Joseph B. R. Whitney, China: Area, Administration, and Nation Building, Department of Geography, University of Chicago, →OCLC, page 42

    From the age of thirteen, Huang Pin-hung was able to study paintings in private collections that were being dispersed in the area around his ancestral home in She-hsien, An-hui Province, in the wake of the T’ai-p’ing Rebellion; he was particularly impressed by the works of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang (1555-1636) and Cha Shih-piao (1615-98).

    2004, Jason C. Kuo, “Introduction”, in Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's Late Work, Peter Lang, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6

Origin

  1. Mandarin安徽
  2. EnglishAn-hui

From Mandarin 安徽 (Ānhuī) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-hui¹.

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