Hunan
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Definitions
- 1 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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More examples"Women developed the phonetic script called "nu shu," or "female writing," centuries ago in Jiangyong County, Hunan province. They used it to communicate with close friends, who were often sent to distant villages after their marriages."
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 湖南 (Húnán) Wade-Giles romanization: Hu²-nan², literally “south of the lake”, referring to Lake Dongting. Doublet of Honam.
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