Meanings
alternative Suanen · alternative Süanen · alternative Hsuan-en · alternative Hsüan-en
- A county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
(Chunmuying) District of Hsuanen County has fulfilled this year's grain procurement quota.
[1969 December 9 [1969 December 3], “Hupeh Agriculture”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 237, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 62 more examples
Some cadres kept two sets of books, one with the real figures in the village and another with fake numbers for the eyes of grain inspectors. This was widespread in several counties in Guangdong province.²³ In Xuan’en county, Hubei, one in three book-keepers falsified the accounts.
2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212A source from Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital, said the patient was Huang Dengying, a 61-year-old former official in Xuanen county who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2013 for taking bribes, but released early on February 17.
[2020 February 27, Mandy Zuo, “Ex-prison inmate infected with coronavirus travels from Wuhan to Beijing”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2020, People & Culture
Origin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 宣恩 (Xuān'ēn).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 宣恩
- 宣恩 (syun¹ jan¹)county in central China
Chinese Mandarin 宣恩
- 宣恩 (Xuān'ēn)county in central China
Hindi श्वेनएन
- श्वेनएन (śvenaen)county in central China
Japanese 宣恩
- 宣恩 (senon)county in central China
Cite this entry
Xuan'en. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xuan'en
“Xuan'en.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xuan'en. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Xuan'en,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xuan'en.
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