Nan'ao

See also: Nán'ào and nán'áo

English

Alternative forms

• Nan-ao (Wade–Giles)
• Namoa (Postal Romanization, from Cantonese)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南澳 (Nán'ào).

Pronunciation

• enPR: nänʹouʹ

Proper noun

Nan'ao

1. A county of Shantou, Guangdong, China.
   • 1997, John W. Garver, “The Confrontation”, in Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan's Democratization‎^[1], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 99–100:

     The force composition of the two PLA concentrations—on the Dongshan-Nan'ao Islands area at the southern end of the Strait and Haitan Island at the northern end-reflected their assigned missions dealing with achievement of air and sea superiority and amphibious assault.

   • 2022 April 2, “Surging offshore wind power boosts China's green development”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[2], archived from the original on 02 April 2022‎^[3]:

     The Shantou Datang Lemen I offshore wind power project, with 35 wind turbines, is located near the Lemen Islands in Nan'ao County. It is the first offshore wind power project in eastern Guangdong that has been put into operation.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nan'ao.

Translations

county of Shantou, Guangdong, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 南澳 (naam⁴ ou³)

  Mandarin: 南澳 (zh) (Nán'ào)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Namao”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1279, column 3: “Often mistakenly spelled Namoa.”
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Nan’ao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2114, column 2

Anagrams

• Anona, anona