Huayuan

See also: huāyuán and huàyuán

English

Alternative forms

• Hwayüan
• Hua-yüan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology 1

From the Mandarin 花垣 (Huāyuán).

Proper noun

Huayuan

1. A county of Xiangxi prefecture, Hunan, China

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 花垣 (faa¹ wun⁴)

  Mandarin: 花垣 (zh) (Huāyuán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

From the Mandarin 花園／花园 (Huāyuán).

Proper noun

Huayuan

1. A town in Xiaochang, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
   • 1912, Percy Horace Kent, “The Struggle for Hankow”, in The Passing of the Manchus‎^[1], Longmans, Green & Co., →OCLC, page 135:

     By October the 24th, headquarters had passed from Huayuan to Hsiaokan, only 45 miles from Hankow, and in a telegram dated from that place on October 25th it was announced by General Yin Ch'ang that the main body of the Imperialists had moved forward to Niehkow, some six or seven miles from Kilometre Ten, and that he himself was following.

   • 1926, Julean Arnold, China: a Commercial and Industrial Handbook‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 441‎^[3]:

     The Hupeh provincial authorities have recently completed the construction of a highway from Siangyang to Shasi, a distance of approximately 200 miles; an extension from Siangyang to Tsaoyang has been completed, and this road is being extended through to Huayuan on the Peking-Hankow Raihvay, a total distance of 170 miles.

   • 2020 [1930 August 4], Yinan (金一南) Jin, Misery and Glory: The Long March and Its Antecedents‎^[4], Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [5]:

     On the night of the 27th they took Changsha and occupied Nanchang on July 30. Meanwhile, the Communists in northern Hubei blocked the Beiping-Hankou Railway at Huayuan town and advanced further to take Xiaogan.

2. A village in Xinchengzi, Miyun district, Beijing, China.

Translations

town in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花園／花园 (zh) (Huāyuán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huayuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1325, column 2