Xiaogan

See also: xiàogǎn and Xiàogǎn

English

Alternative forms

• Siaokan (Postal Romanization)
• Hsiao-kan, Hsiaokan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孝感 (Xiàogǎn).

Proper noun

Xiaogan

1. A prefecture-level city in Hubei, in central China.
   • 2014 December 1, Edward Wong, “Teachers’ Strikes Spread Across Northeast China”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 December 2014, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     In early September, teachers at a high school in the city of Xiaogan, in Hubei Province, went on strike over what they called the government’s refusal to give them the proper status in the public employment system. The status helps determine details of their pension plans.

Translations

a city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孝感 (zh) (Xiàogǎn)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiaogan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 3
• Xiaogan, Hsiao-kan, Hsiaokan, Siaokan at Google Ngram Viewer