Anhui

See also: Ānhuī

English

Alternative forms

• Anhuei, An-hwei, Anhwei
• An-hui (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 安徽 (Ānhuī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːnˈhweɪ/

Proper noun

Anhui

1. A province in eastern China. Capital: Hefei.
   • 1896, Demetrius Charles Boulger, The Life of Gordon‎^[1], 4th edition, T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 75:

     He found nothing but disorder at the Taeping capital, and no troops with which he could venture to assume the offensive against the powerful army, in numbers at all events, that the two Tsengs had drawn round Nanking. In this position his troubles were increased by the suspicion of Tien Wang, who deprived him of all his honours, and banished him to the province of Anhui, adjacent to both Kiangsi and Kiangsu, and joined with him in the same viceroyalty.

   • 1907, “THE FAMINE IN KIANGPEH”, in The Missionary Herald‎^[2], volume 103, number 2, page 92:

     Some idea of the extent of the calamity, which is due to the excessive rains of the summer, resulting in the complete failure of the crops and the destruction of many homesteads, may be gathered from the fact that the committee with probably make an appeal for at least £250,000. Help will be solicited not only from Shanghai, but from Great Britain, America and the continent of Europe. Even should all the amount asked for be raised, it will only permit of an expenditure equal at most to about sixpence per head of the starving and homeless people. For although the term Kiangpeh is conveniently applied to the distressed district, the famine is felt in large portions of the four provinces of Kiangsu, Anhui, Honan, and Shantung, over a tract estimated at 40,000 square miles in area and in the most thickly populated part of the empire.

   • 1981 March 22, “Chinese opera delights audience at international arts festival”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XXII, number 11, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     The third and latest influence is the Hui style, native to Anhui Province.

   • 2017 November 25, “Panama Canal aims to become greener with floating solar panels”, in EFE‎^[4], archived from the original on 27 June 2022:

     In June, China inaugurated the world's largest floating solar farm in the eastern mining province of Anhui, a facility capable of producing 40 megawatts of power and supplying electricity to some 15,000 homes.

   • 2019 June 21, “China rescues over 1,000 trafficked women 'sold' as wives”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[5], archived from the original on 21 June 2019, News‎^[6]:

     In one raid, police said they'd found 11 Vietnamese women living in a safe house in China's central Anhui province that belonged to a "marriage agency." The agency charged 3,000 to 10,000 yuan (€386 to €12,86; $450 to $10,500) to connect a Chinese man to a Vietnamese bride.

   • 2022 July 5, Zixu Wang, “Covid Outbreak Emerges in China’s Anhui Province”, in The New York Times‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-05, The Coronavirus Pandemic‎^[8]:

     As China gradually emerges from a Covid-19 surge that shut down Shanghai for two months, an outbreak in eastern Anhui Province is posing a new challenge to efforts to balance economic growth with the government’s “zero Covid” policy.
     There were more than 200 reported cases in Anhui’s Suzhou city on Monday.

Synonyms

• Ngan-hwei, Nganhwei, Ngan-hwuei, Nganhwuei, Gan-hwuy, Ganhwuy, Ngan-hui, Nganhui, Nganhuei

Translations

province of China

• Arabic: آنْهُوي m (ʔanhūy), آنْخْوي m (ʔanḵūy)
• Armenian: Անհոյ (hy) (Anhoy)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 安徽 (on¹ fai¹)

  Mandarin: 安徽 (zh) (Ānhuī)

• Czech: An-chuej
• Georgian: ანხოი (anxoi)
• Greek: Ανχουέι (Anchouéi)
• Hungarian: Anhuj (hu)
• Japanese: 安徽 (あんき, Anki)
• Korean: 안후이 (anhu'i), 안휘 (anhwi)
• Latvian: Aņhui
• Lithuanian: Anhujus
• Manchu: ᠠᠨ
  ᡥᡡᡳ (an hūi)
• Portuguese: Anhui f
• Russian: Аньхо́й m (Anʹxój) (official), Аньхуэ́й m (Anʹxuéj), Аньху́й m (Anʹxúj)
• Swedish: Anhui n, Anhwei n
• Thai: อานฮุย
• Tibetan: ཨན་ཧུའེ་ཞིང་ཆེན (an hu'e zhing chen)
• Vietnamese: An Huy (vi)
• Zhuang: Anhveih

Further reading

• “Anhui”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Anhui, Anhwei, An-hui, An-hwei, Ngan-hwei, Nganhwei, Gan-hwuy, Ganhwuy, Ngan-hui, Nganhui, Nganhuei at Google Ngram Viewer
• “Anhui”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Anhui”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Anhui” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Anhui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 138-139

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 安徽 (Ānhuī).

Proper noun

Anhui f

1. Anhui (a province of China)