Hunan

/huːˈnɑːn/

Synonyms for "hunan" (10 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
administrative divisionchinese regional cuisine

Strong matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
geographic areahunaneseprovince

Related words (5)

Noun(5 words)
provincialregionregionalregional cuisinexiang cuisine

Related word relations

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More general

6 entries
cuisinegeographic descriptorgeographic regionpolitical entityregional adjectiveregional cuisine

More specific

10 entries
ChangshaHunan cuisineHunan dialectHunan geographyHunan historyXiangtanZhuzhougarlic pork dishspicy dishstir fry dish

Collocations

9 entries
Hunan UniversityHunan cuisineHunan dialectHunan geographyHunan historyHunan peppersHunan provinceHunan studiesHunanese people

Inflections

2 entries
more Hunanmost Hunan

Derivations

1 entries

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

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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.

Source: tatoeba (7769980)

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.

Source: wiktionary

The specimens on which the original description of O. Henryi was based were sent to Kew in 1886 by Mr. A. Henry, who had obtained them at Patung in Hupeh, Central China. Since then species has been met with in the adjoining provinces of Hunan and Szechuan.

Source: wiktionary

Toward the end of 1916 the Siems-Carey Co., allied with the American International Corporation, entered into a contract with the Chinese Government for the construction, among others, of a railway in the district-the Chuchow-Chinchow Line-which is to connect southern Hunan with the eastern seaboard of Kwangtung.

Source: wiktionary

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