Henan
English
Etymology
From various romanizations of the Chinese 河南 (Hénán, literally “[land] south of the river”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /həˈnɑːn/, /həˈnæn/
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Proper noun
Henan
- A province of China. Capital: Zhengzhou.
- 2022 July 11, Nierenberg, Amelia, “Your Tuesday Briefing: Bank Protests in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 July 2022:
- Security forces attacked as many as a thousand protesters who were trying to withdraw their money from four rural banks in Henan Province this weekend.
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- An island south of the old urban core of Guangzhou, Guangdong, in China.
Descendants
- Latin: henanensis
Translations
Chinese province
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Henan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1265, column 2
- “Henan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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