Hannan

Han·nan
H4A1N1N1A1N1

proper noun

A surname from Irish.

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Meanings

Hannan1

proper nounHannan (plural Hannans)

plural Hannans · alternative Hannon

  1. A surname from Irish.

Hannan2

proper noun
  1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.

    In five years, a large agricultural sightseeing zone will emerge in Hannan District of Wuhan City. The project was launched early this year. Hannan District, surrounded by three rivers — the Yangtze River,[...]

    2001, Beijing Review, volume 44, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29
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    On 23 September, 45 criminals were escorted to the execution ground and shot by the Wuhan police on convictions of murder, rape, and robbery.[…]He was serving his sentence at the Hannan District Prison, when on 28 April he beat up one of the inmates, Xiong Sanhong, for failing to recite the "cell rules."

    1994 September 30 [1994 September 24], “Largest Number of Executions Since 1983”, in Daily Report: China, number 190, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan HUBEI RIBAO, 24 Sep 1994, p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, National Affairs, page 41, columns 1, 2

    When an elderly Wuhan man in a wheelchair pushed his sick wife into the Yangtze River and killed her on her request, he never thought he would be a murderer.[…] Still, the Hannan district court sentenced the 70-year-old to four years of jail for euthanasia in August.

    2013 August 13, Chris Luo, “Man, 70, deemed murderer by court after killing sick wife in euthanasia case”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2013

    For the understanding convenience, in this study, we took the facet figure spot data of the land use status data sets collected in Hannan district of Wuhan city as an example, referred the uniformity treatment flow scheme and introduced the basic steps and the related principles of application of FEM and its expended modules MyFME to conduct uniformity treatment.

    2015, H.B. Zhang, Y.H. Wang, Z.Z. Guo, “Consistent handling approach on multi-temporal land use status data with various differences”, in Zhenqi Hu, editor, Legislation, Technology and Practice of Mine Land Reclamation, CRC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 68, column 2

    There are three procedures including data preprocessing, tag, and modeling. The first step is the preprocessing including extracting information from the database of land in Hannan district, Wuhan city, Hubei province, China. Next, some parameters and features are calculated.

    2017, X F Xun, L F Mo, H X Tao, “Prediction of the unused land for construction based on multi-classifier fusion”, in Ahmed Mebarki, editor, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning (CEUP2016), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 241

    “He had been hiding it from me and my mom. He wouldn’t talk to us about his physical condition,” said his daughter Yang Jingjing, who had been quarantined in her apartment in Wuhan’s Wuchung district after returning from her parents’ home across town in the Hannan district. “I just want to find my dad.”[...] Yang Yuanyun was last seen by a police surveillance camera on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, near Shamao Town in the Hannan district.

    2020 February 29, Xiao Yu, Shih-Wei Chou, “A Month in Locked-Down Wuhan: A Father's Death, a Sleepless Volunteer and Pressure”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 01 May 2022, COVID-19 Pandemic

Origin

Hannan · proper noun

  1. IrishÓ hAnnáin“descendant of Annán”
  2. EnglishHannan

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hAnnáin (“descendant of Annán”), a personal name of uncertain origin.

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Hannan · proper noun

  1. Mandarin漢南 /汉南
  2. EnglishHannan

From Mandarin 漢南 /汉南 (Hànnán).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 漢南 /汉南
  • 漢南 /汉南 (hon³ naam⁴)district in central China
Chinese Mandarin 漢南 /汉南
  • 漢南 /汉南 (Hànnán)district in central China
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