Handan

See also: handan

English

Alternative forms

• Han-tan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: hänʹdänʹ

Proper noun

Handan

1. A prefecture-level city in 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^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 December 2014, World‎^[5]:

     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

a prefecture-level city in north China

• Arabic: هَانْدَان m (handān), خَانْدَان m (ḵandān)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邯鄲／邯郸 (zh) (Hándān)

• Japanese: 邯鄲 (かんたん, Kantan)
• Korean: 한단(邯鄲) (Handan)
• Macedonian: Хандан m (Handan)
• Russian: Ханьда́нь m (Xanʹdánʹ)
• Vietnamese: Hàm Đan

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Handan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1228, column 3

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian خندان (“laughing”).

Proper noun

Handan

1. a female given name