Handan

See also: handan

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邯鄲 / 邯郸 (Hándān).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hän′dän′[1][2]
  • Hyphenation: Han‧dan

Proper noun

Handan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
    • [1949, Jack Belden, “Traveling Companions”, in China Shakes the World‎[1], Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 38:
      Sometime in the afternoon, we reached Hantan, a town of forty thousand people along the now defunct Peiping-Hankow Railway. Although the first real city I had seen since leaving Kuomintang areas, Hantan was only half alive.]
    • [1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71‎[2], Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 317:
      The coking-coal center of Fengfeng in southern Hopei, for example, was among the first places designated as a mining district, about 1951, and was raised to the status of city in 1954. (Two years later, it was incorporated into the expanding urban complex of Hantan.)]
    • 2001, “People with Disabilities”, in Falun Gong Stories: A Journey to Ultimate Health‎[3], Golden Lotus Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37:
      Xiufen Xie, 53, was born in a village near Handan City, Hebei Province, China. Her story was originally published in an official Chinese newspaper in 1998.
    • 2014 December 1, William Wan, “Once a cop, now an outcast: A Chinese tale of abuse and a craving for justice”, in The Washington Post (World section)‎[4], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 December 2014:
      At age 20, Tian enlisted in the army, and nine years later she joined the police force of Handan, a city 300 miles south of Beijing.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Hantan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 756, column 2
  2. ^ “Han-tan or Han·tan”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308, column 1

Further reading

Turkish

Etymology

From Classical Persian خندان (xandān, “laughing”).

Proper noun

Handan

  1. a female given name from Persian
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