Hunan
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Hunan
- /huːˈnɑːn/
- /huːˈnæn/
Rhymes with -ɑːn, -æn
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Mandarin 湖南 (Húnán) Wade-Giles romanization: Hu²-nan², literally “south of the lake”, referring to Lake Dongting. Doublet of Honam.
proper noun Hu'nan · Hu-nan · Hu Nan · Hoonan
- A province of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting. Capital: Changsha. Foreign Missions.—Pursuing the Fulton pledge system of two-cents-a-week-for-Missions, our young people have contributed to the support of their representative in China, Rev. T. J. Preston. He has recently gone to our station at Chang-teh, in the Hunan Province, China.
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Talk about this word "Hunan." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hunan. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Hunan. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/hunan "Hunan." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/hunan.Cite this
@misc{hunan_2026,
title = {Hunan},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hunan},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
