Hui'an

Hui·an
/(ˈ)hweɪˈɑn//-æn/

proper noun

A county of Quanzhou, Fujian, China.

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Huian

  1. A county of Quanzhou, Fujian, China.
    1 more example

    When I first watched The Twin Bracelets in 1993 in the United States, I was skeptical of its being marketed as a lesbian film. After several years of fieldwork in eastern Hui’an County, a coastal region of southeast China, where the story ostensibly takes place, I became more convinced that the film was being misread in the United States, in large part due to the tendency to subsume same-sex intimacy under sexual identity.

    2012, Sara L. Friedman, “Another Kind of Love?”, in Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia, Duke University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 234

Origin

  1. Mandarin惠安
  2. EnglishHui'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 惠安 (Huì'ān).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 惠安
  • 惠安 (wai⁶ on¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 惠安
  • 惠安 (Huì'ān)county
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Hui'an. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hui'an

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Chicago

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