Huainan

• (from Wade–Giles) Huai-nan

From the Mandarin 淮南 (Huáinán, “land[s] south of the Huai River”).

Huainan

1. A prefecture-level city in Anhui, China.
   • 1902, Ernst Faber, Chronological Handbook of the History of China‎, →OCLC, page 185:

     1319 Great fire at Yang 揚 chou ; over 23,300 official and private houses were burnt. All the roads in Shantung and Huainan were flooded.

   • 2022 March 27, Sun, Luna, “Private industrial enterprises in China see profits fall in first two months of the year”, in South China Morning Post‎, archived from the original on 27 March 2022, China Economy‎:

     After reporting one positive case, Huainan, a city of nearly 3.5 million people in Anhui province that borders Shanghai, ordered residents not to leave unless they can provide a negative test result taken within the past 48 hours.

2. (China, historical) A principality between the Huai and Yangtze rivers during the Han Dynasty.
3. (China) The region of China between the Huai and Yangtze rivers generally.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huainan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1320, column 3
• “Huainan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Huainan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.