Haimen

See also: Hǎimén

English

Alternative forms

• Hai-men (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 海門／海门 (Hǎimén, literally “sea gate”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: hīʹmǔnʹ

Proper noun

Haimen

1. A district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China; former county-level city and county of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
   • 1926, Paul Vidal de La Blache, translated by Millicent Todd Bingham, Principles of Human Geography‎^[1], London: Constable Publishers, published 1959, →OCLC, page 76:

     At the mouth of the Yangtze, population-density on the island of Tsungming and the peninsula Haimen reaches an exaggerated figure, the one of 1475, the other of 700 inhabitants per square kilometre.

   • 1939 February 17, “JAPANESE TO SEIZE NEW COASTAL AREA; Foreign Shipping Is Warned of Move to Tighten Blockade South of Shanghai FRENCH IN HANKOW CLASH Gunboat to Aid Americans at Kuling--Invaders Shifting North in Guerrilla Fight”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 October 2023, page 13‎^[3]:

     Japanese authorities served notice today that they intended to land troops at Haimen, 200 miles down the coast from Shanghai, later tomorrow in a new move to tighten the China coast blockade.

Translations

district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China; former county-level city and county of Jiangsu, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海門／海门 (zh) (Hǎimén)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Haimen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1214, column 3

Anagrams

• Heiman, haemin, hemina