Hsüan-hua

A form of Xuanhua — A district of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China.

OriginMandarin 宣化 →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Xuanhua.

    At the other end of the Pao-t'ou-Lan-chou railway and further beyond lie the rich deposits at Paiyun-opo near Pao-t’ou, and the Lung-yen iron mines at Hsüan-hua which have already been supplying the steel industry in Peiping.

    1967, Kuei-sheng Chang, “Geographical Bases for Industrial Development in Northwestern China”, in Cultural Geography: Selected Readings, 2nd printing, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 384

Origin

  1. Mandarin宣化
  2. EnglishHsüan-hua

From Mandarin 宣化 (Xuānhuà) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsüan¹-hua⁴.

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