Hsia-men
See also: Hsiamen
English
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Etymology
editFrom the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 廈門／厦門／厦门 (Hsia⁴-mên²).[1][2]
Proper noun
editHsia-men
- Alternative form of Xiamen
- 1990, Richard Humble, The Travels of Marco Polo (Exploration Through the Ages)[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 25:
- They sailed from the great seaport of Cathay: Zaiton (modern Hsia-men), in a fleet of fourteen ships brought together on Kublai's orders. The ships Marco described were far bigger than anything built in Europe at that time.
- 2003, Cheng-sheng Tu, translated by Paul Cooper, Ilha Formosa: the Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century[3], →OCLC, →OL, page 27:
- After Li Tan's death in 1625, Hsu Hsin-su (許心素), leader of the Chang-chou people dwelling in and around the city of Hsia-men (廈門, or Amoy), emerged as his successor.
- 2005 December 27, “Folk crafts”, in Hakka Affairs Council[4], archived from the original on 28 March 2023:
- He went to Hsia-men with his fellow townsman Wu Chen-hsing in 1922, and engaged in brewery in the beginning before devoting himself to tung oil soaked paper umbrella manufacturing.
- 2007, Ronald Findlay, Kevin O'Rourke, Power and Plenty[5], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173:
- Chinese traders, mostly from the southern ports of Amoy (Hsia-men) and Canton, took raw silk, fabrics, and apparel to Manila, where these cargoes were sold for silver and carried back for sale in the New World.
Translations
editXiamen — see Xiamen
References
edit- ^ Xiamen, Wade-Giles romanization Hsia-men, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 479: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Hsia-men (Xiamen) 厦門”
Further reading
edit- “Hsia-men”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Hsia-men, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Hsia-men”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Hsia-men”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Hsia-men” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiamen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 3500-3501, column 3: “[…] sometimes spelled Hsia-men.”