Xiang'an
See also: xiàngān
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 翔安 (Xiáng'ān).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Xiang'an
- A district of Xiamen, Fujian, China
- 2011, Neal Stephenson, Reamde[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 465:
- Sokolov’s phone had GPS and maps, which he had been watching with interest ever since they had left the airport in their wake. They were roaring down Xunjianggang, a strait about three kilometers wide that ran between Xiamen Island and the northeastern district of Xiang’an.
- 2020, Yu Zhao et al., “Towards Sustainable Urban Communities: A Composite Spatial Accessibility Assessment for Residental Suitability Based on Network Big Data”, in Big Data Research for Social Sciences and Social Impact[2], →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 149:
- In general, the residential suitability of all public services in Siming and Huli district were the best,[...]However, the performance in Xiang'an district was the worst, with a 23.56 average residential score and 51.40% regional disparity.
- 2021 August 27, Meidong Hu, Zheng Caixiong, “Tropical dragon fruit comes to Gansu”, in China Daily[3], archived from the original on 28 August 2021:
- Tseng, who had gained experience planting dragon fruit in Taiwan, came to Xiamen, Fujian province, to start his business in 2015.
He built a plantation in Xiamen's Xiang'an district after finding that the Chinese mainland had great potential for agricultural development. He established a dragon fruit cooperative to attract residents to join him and help revitalize the rural economy.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xiang'an.