hua

plural huas

1. alternativeNew Zealand spellingAlternative form of hooer.
2. abbreviationabbreviation of the phrase Upoko kōhua, a highly offensive term, shortened to ‘hua

plural Huas

1. A surname.

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   Amid a severe labor shortage, companies have boosted wages to try to attract and retain workers, driving the average annual salary to an eight-year high in 2023, said Stanley Hua (花梓馨), general manager of 104 Human Resource Institute, at a news conference, citing the results of a Taiwan salary trends survey. However, amid an economic slowdown, the figure represents only a 2.5 percent increase from a year ago, lower than the 3.1 percent year-on-year hike recorded last year, Hua said.

   2023 November 29, Liu Chien-ling, Evelyn Kao, “Taiwan's annual average wage rises to eight-year high: Job bank survey”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2023, Business

1. A county of Anyang, Henan, China.

   A native of Hua County, Henan Province, Nie joined the CCP in 1938.

   2009, “Nie Yuanzi”, in The A to Z of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 200

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   Some forty-five li south of Qian Kou is the market town of Bai Dao Kou. Fifteen li to the west is Dao Kou town, the capital of Hua County, Henan Province.

   1997, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., “The Police Attack on Impoverished Qi Ji”, in Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins of Peasant Protest and Communist Revolution in China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 140

   Serum samples were separated from blood samples by centrifugation and tested for HCV in the Anyang Cancer Hospital for case-patients from Anyang, Lin, and Tangyin counties, and in the Hua County Hospital for case-patients from Hua County.

   2009 November, Fangfang Liu, Ke Chen, Zhonghu He, Tao Ning, Yaqi Pan, Hong Cai, Yang Ke, “Hepatitis C Seroprevalence and Associated Risk Factors, Anyang, China”, in Emerging Infectious Diseases, volume 15, number 11, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1819