Nan-an

A form of Nan'an — A county-level city of Quanzhou, Fujian, China.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Nan'an.

    In 1974, except for two mainlanders who married village girls and resided there, and one Hakka-speaking family, the majority of the village families and lineage groups can trace their ancestry to Nan-an county, a small area in Ch'uan-chou region, southern Fukkien.

    1981, Huang Shu-min, “Research Procedure and the Village Setting”, in Agricultural Degradation Changing Community Systems in Rural Taiwan, University Press of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18

Origin

  1. Mandarin南安
  2. EnglishNan-an

Borrowed from Mandarin 南安 (Nán'ān) Wade–Giles pronunciation: Nan²-an¹.

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