Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Nanhai (a district of Foshan, Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China).
As for K’ang Yu-wei, his first given name was Tsu-i. He was born in 1858, in the district of Nan-hai, Kwangtung, into an old and aristocratic family which for generations had been noted for its Neo-Confucian scholarship.
1956, Li Chien-lung, translated by Ssu-yu Teng and Jeremy Hills, The Political History of China, 1840-1928, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., page 1452 more examples
In 1939 approximately 70 percent of Shun-te's land area was devoted to this economy, and about 90 percent of the population was engaged in one or another aspect of sericulture. Nan-hai had close to one-half the mulberry acreage of Shun-te; a little less than half its population was engaged in sericulture.
1975, Marjorie Topley, “Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung”, in Margery Wolf, Roxane Witke, editors, Women in Chinese Society, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70Bhikshu Chih-tao, a native of Nan-hai of Kwangtung, came to the patriarch for instruction, saying, "Since I joined the order I have read the Mahāparinirvāna-sūtra for more than ten years, but I have not yet grasped its main idea. Will you please teach me?"
1990, A. F. Price, Wong Mou-lam, transl., The Diamond Sūtra and the Sūtra of Hui-neng, Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119
Origin
- Mandarin南海
- EnglishNan-hai
Borrowed from Mandarin 南海 (Nánhǎi) Wade–Giles pronunciation: Nan²-hai³.
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