Nanhui

English

Alternative forms

• Nanhwei

Etymology

From Mandarin 南匯／南汇 (Nánhuì).

Pronunciation

• enPR: nänʹhwāʹ

Proper noun

Nanhui

1. Short for Nanhui New City.
2. (historical) A district of Shanghai, China.
   • 2009 May 6, “UPDATE 1-PRESS DIGEST - China - May 7”, in Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 07 May 2022, Banks‎^[2]:

     -- China’s State Council has approved the merger of the Shanghai Pudong New District with the neighbouring Nanhui district, the Shanghai municipal government said.[...]
     -- The Pudong district of Shanghai, the country’s financial and commercial hub, is about to more than double in size as it will merge with neighbouring Nanhui district.

   • 2014 September 24, “Shanghai graft probe ensnares 11 officials”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 13, 2014, China‎^[4]:

     The city’s anti-corruption watchdog announced that Wu Zhongquan, former director of the Construction and Transportation Commission in Shanghai’s Minhang district, and Tang Guiming, former party secretary of Xuanqiao county in the now defunct Nanhui district were being investigated for “serious disciplinary violations”, a phrase routinely used as a euphemism for corruption.
     Also being investigated were Zhu Jinhua, former deputy director of the urban planning and land management department in Nanhui, and Zhang Wenjun, former bureau chief of Nanhui’s housing and land administration bureau.

Translations

locations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南匯／南汇 (zh) (Nánhuì)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

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