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.
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Handan
Synonyms for "handan"
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Translations
9 translations across 8 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- خَانْدَان name (a prefecture-level city in north China)
- هَانْدَان name (a prefecture-level city in north China)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 邯鄲 /邯郸 name (a prefecture-level city in north China)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 邯鄲 /邯郸 name (a prefecture-level city in north China)
Japanese
1 entries- 邯鄲 name (a prefecture-level city in north China)
Korean
1 entries- 한단 name (a prefecture-level city in north China)
Macedonian
1 entries- Хандан name (a prefecture-level city in north China)
Russian
1 entries- Ханьда́нь name (a prefecture-level city in north China)
Vietnamese
1 entries- Hàm Đan name (a prefecture-level city in north China)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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.)
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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.
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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.
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