Huoshan

Huo·shan
H4U1O1S1H4A1N1

proper noun

A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Huo-shan

  1. A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.

    A man has been arrested in Huoshan county near Luan for drink-driving after he rang up the police by mistake and then challenged an officer to a fight,[…]

    2014 October 9, Wu Nan, “Drink-driving bungle; Fake goods up in flames; Ex-official denies gambling”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2014, China Insider
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    Hundreds and thousands of people joyfully beat gongs and drums to deliver their applications and resolutions to local Party committees and governments. The people of Manshui District, Huoshan County, walked 40 miles to deliver their resolutions to the local Party committees.

    1959 June 15, Richard L. Walker, “Letters from the Communes”, in The New Leader, volume XLII, number 24, →ISSN, →OCLC, Section Two, page 6

    To meet the rising needs for this medicinal raw material, in 1958 workers at the Huoshan county medical supply and marketing department in Anhwei province set up a farm to domesticate the animal.

    1975 March, An Hung, “Domesticating Musk Deer”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 3, →OCLC, page 47

    Experiments on wide-ridge rice-fish farming in Huo Shan County in 1987 indicated that the number of panicles per bunch, grains per panicle, and weight per thousand grains were higher in outside crop rows than in the rows at in the centre (Table 2).

    [1995 June, Yan Dejuan et al., “Ridge-Cultured Rice Integrated with Fish Farming in Trenches, Anhui Province”, in Kenneth T. MacKay, editor, Rice-Fish Culture in China, Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 99

    The Piyuan Canal Rehabilitation Project presented in Chapter 9 is one component of the China—Netherlands Poverty Alleviation Project (CNPAP), being implemented in Huoshan County, Anhui Province.

    2004, Janelle Plummer, “Introduction”, in Community Participation in China: Issues and Processes for Capacity Building, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17

Origin

  1. Mandarin霍山
  2. EnglishHuoshan

From Mandarin 霍山 (Huòshān).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 霍山
  • 霍山 (fok³ saan¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 霍山
  • 霍山 (Huòshān)county

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