Xuanhua

See also: xuānhuá and xuānhuà

English

Alternative forms

• Hsüan-hua

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宣化 (Xuānhuà).

Proper noun

Xuanhua

1. A district of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China.
   • 2005 January, Dong Yaohui [董耀会], “Historical Relics on the Great Wall [长城名胜]”, in Tan Baoquan [谭宝泉], transl., The Eternal Great Wall [永远的长城]‎^[1], Beijing: China Nationality Art Photograph Publishing House [中国民族摄影艺术出版社], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 124, column 1:

     Ancient Xuanhua City (宣化古城)
     It locates in Xuanhua District, Zhangjiakou. The ancient city was first built in the Tang Dynasty. In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty (1394), it was expanded and covered with bricks.

   • 2021 June 16, Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “China ramps up vaccinations, but uneven rollout leaves borders closed”, in Miyoung Kim, Michael Perry, editors, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 2021-06-16, China‎^[3]:

     Several counties and districts of Zhangjiakou city in northern China, which will host some of the Games, are urging residents to get vaccinated, saying it is a "necessary contribution" that they should make for the international event.
     As part of the city's vaccination campaign, more than 1,800 unvaccinated visitors were dissuaded from entering a park in the Xuanhua district earlier this month and guided to nearby inoculation sites, according to a social media post by the district-level authorities.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宣化 (zh) (Xuānhuà)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xuanhua”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 3