Xuanhua

See also: xuānhuá and xuānhuà

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • enPR: shüǎnʹhwāʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Xuan‧hua

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]‎[2], 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[3], archived from the original on 16 June 2021, China‎[4]:
      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.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Süanhwa or Hsüan-hua”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1836, column 2

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