Handan
See also: handan
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邯鄲/邯郸 (Hándān).
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: hänʹdänʹ
Proper noun edit
Handan
- A prefecture-level city in Hebei, China.
- [1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71[1], Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 317:
- The coking-coal center of Fengfeng in southern Hopei, for example, was among the first places designated as a mining district, about 1951, and was raised to the status of city in 1954. (Two years later, it was incorporated into the expanding urban complex of Hantan.)]
- 2014 December 1, William Wan, “Once a cop, now an outcast: A Chinese tale of abuse and a craving for justice”, in The Washington Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 December 2014, World[4]:
- At age 20, Tian enlisted in the army, and nine years later she joined the police force of Handan, a city 300 miles south of Beijing.
Translations edit
a prefecture-level city in north China
Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Handan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1228, column 3
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Persian خندان (“laughing”).
Proper noun edit
Handan
- a female given name