Xiamen
See also: Xiàmén
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃjɑːˈmɛn/
Proper noun
Xiamen
- A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city in Fujian, in southeastern China.
- 2017 September 4, “BRICS meets in shadow of North Korea bombshell”, in France 24, archived from the original on 04 September 2017, Live news:
- The BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- had gathered in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen hoping to counter accusations that the group of big emerging economies was drifting apart and becoming irrelevant.
- 2022 September 1, Didi Tang, “Taiwan shoots down Chinese drone”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 September 2022, World:
- For the past month Beijing has routinely sent drones over the Kinmen islands, which are about six miles from the coastal Chinese city of Xiamen. Recently China started to release high-resolution, close-range drone video of military facilities on Kinmen.
Translations
a sub-provincial city in southeastern China
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References
- “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 479: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Hsia-men (Xiamen) 厦門”
- Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈) (2015) “Transliteration Tables”, in Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan, Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 428: “Transliterations used in the text / Hanyu pinyin / Chinese characters or Japanese kanji […] Amoy (Hsiamen) / Xiamen / 廈門”
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiamen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3500, column 3
- “Xiamen”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Xiamen, Amoy, Hsiamen, Hsia-men, Siamen at Google Ngram Viewer
- “Xiamen, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Xiamen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Xiamen”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Xiamen” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʃi.aˈmẽj̃/ [ʃɪ.aˈmẽɪ̯̃], (faster pronunciation) /ʃjaˈmẽj̃/ [ʃjaˈmẽɪ̯̃]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʃjaˈmɛn/
Proper noun
Xiamen f
- Xiamen (a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city in Fujian, in southeastern China)
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