"Hainan" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /haɪˈnɑːn/, /haɪˈnæn/
enPR: hīʹnänʹ Etymology: c. 1600s, from Mandarin 海南 (Hǎinán). Etymology templates: {{circa|1600s}} c. 1600s, {{bor|en|cmn|海南|tr=Hǎinán}} Mandarin 海南 (Hǎinán) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Hainan
  1. A province off the coast of southern China, primarily made up of Hainan Island. Capital: Haikou. Categories (place): Hainan, Places in China, Provinces of China Synonyms: Hai-nan (alt: Wade–Giles), Haynan, Hylam [obsolete] Derived forms: Hainan gibbon, Hainanese Related terms (Provinces): Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan · Yunnan · Zhejiang (english: claimed)
    Sense id: en-Hainan-en-name-rlJZRHBf Disambiguation of 'Provinces': 46 10 15 29
  2. An island off the coast of southern China. Categories (place): Islands, Places in China
    Sense id: en-Hainan-en-name-0VJ-ps3y
  3. A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China. Categories (place): Places in China, Places in Qinghai
    Sense id: en-Hainan-en-name-lzlonLCn
  4. A district of Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, China. Categories (place): Places in China, Places in Inner Mongolia Related terms (Autonomous regions): Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang Related terms (Municipalities): Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing Related terms (Special administrative regions): Hong Kong · Macau
    Sense id: en-Hainan-en-name-fH4IvDpx Categories (other): Eastern Min terms with redundant transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Eastern Min terms with redundant transliterations: 21 5 22 52 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 4 24 51 Disambiguation of 'Autonomous regions': 16 3 35 47 Disambiguation of 'Municipalities': 18 3 26 53 Disambiguation of 'Special administrative regions': 18 3 25 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (province of China): هَيْنَان (haynān) [masculine] (Arabic), خَايْنَان (ḵaynān) [masculine] (Arabic), Հայնան (Haynan) (Armenian), Hainan [feminine] (Catalan), 海南 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 海南 (hoi² naam⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 海南 (Hǎinán) (Chinese Mandarin), Chaj-nan (Czech), 海南 (Hāi-nàng) (Eastern Min Chinese), Hainan (Finnish), Haïnan (French), Hainan (French), ხაინანი (xainani) (Georgian), Χαϊνάν (Chaïnán) (Greek), 海南 (Hói-nàm) (Hakka Chinese), Hajnan (Hungarian), 海南 (Kainan) (alt: かいなん) (Japanese), ហៃណាន (haynaan) (Khmer), ហៃណាំ (haynam) (Khmer), 하이난 (Hainan) (Korean), Hainaņa (Latvian), Hainanas (Lithuanian), Hainanis (Lithuanian), ᦆᦻᦓᦱᧃᧉ (xaaynaan²) (), Хајнан (Hajnan) (Macedonian), Hainan (Malay), Hailam (Malay), हाइनान (hāinān) (Marathi), खाइनान (khāinān) (Marathi), هاینان (Persian), Hainan [feminine] (Portuguese), Хайна́нь (Xajnánʹ) [masculine] (Russian), Hainan [neuter] (Swedish), Хайнан (Xaynan) (Tajik), ไหหลำ (hǎi-lǎm) (Thai), ไห่หนาน (Thai), ཧའེ་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན (ha'e nan zhing chen) (Tibetan), Hải Nam (Vietnamese), Haijnanz (Zhuang)
Disambiguation of 'province of China': 33 27 21 19

Alternative forms

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          "text": "After Hainan separated from Guangdong to become its own province in 1988, a development boom was quickly followed by a bust that left many building projects on the island half-finished. In the last few years, Hainan has welcomed back investors and become a fashionable draw for Russian tourists looking to escape winter — entire blocks in Sanya have signs lettered in Russian for their benefit.",
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          "text": "Near to the Iſland Hainan are caught Whales,after the ſame manner as the Hollanders and Engliſh in the North about Greenland, whereof they make Oyl which ſerves for ſeveral uſes.",
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    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Mandarin",
    "English terms derived from Mandarin",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Hainan gibbon"
    },
    {
      "word": "Hainanese"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "1600s"
      },
      "expansion": "c. 1600s",
      "name": "circa"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn",
        "3": "海南",
        "tr": "Hǎinán"
      },
      "expansion": "Mandarin 海南 (Hǎinán)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "c. 1600s, from Mandarin 海南 (Hǎinán).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Hainan",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "claimed",
      "sense": "Provinces",
      "word": "Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan · Yunnan · Zhejiang"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Autonomous regions",
      "word": "Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Municipalities",
      "word": "Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Special administrative regions",
      "word": "Hong Kong · Macau"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Hainan",
        "en:Places in China",
        "en:Provinces of China"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1942 March 20, John McVea, “Madame Chiang Kai-Shek”, in The Gateway, volume XXXII, number 29, Edmonton, page 5",
          "text": "These were a business family, in Hainan province, who, along with other South China merchants, had interests in America, where the multitude of little shops and businesses owned by Chinese had assumed the appearance of a department store chain, representing the invested outlay of controlling families in the Orient.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 March 15, Bonnie Tsui, “The Surf’s Always Up in the Chinese Hawaii”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2009-03-18, Travel",
          "text": "After Hainan separated from Guangdong to become its own province in 1988, a development boom was quickly followed by a bust that left many building projects on the island half-finished. In the last few years, Hainan has welcomed back investors and become a fashionable draw for Russian tourists looking to escape winter — entire blocks in Sanya have signs lettered in Russian for their benefit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 9, “China cargo craft docks with space station ahead of new crew”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-10",
          "text": "The Tianzhou-4 spacecraft was slung into space atop a Long March-7 Y5 rocket at 1:56 a.m. from the Wenchang Launch Base in the southern island province of Hainan. State media said it docked with the station about seven hours later.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A province off the coast of southern China, primarily made up of Hainan Island. Capital: Haikou."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "province",
          "province"
        ],
        [
          "China",
          "China#English"
        ],
        [
          "Haikou",
          "Haikou#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Islands",
        "en:Places in China"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, page 270",
          "text": "Near to the Iſland Hainan are caught Whales,after the ſame manner as the Hollanders and Engliſh in the North about Greenland, whereof they make Oyl which ſerves for ſeveral uſes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983 March 20, “Hainan protest over Teng's economic plans”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIV, number 11, Taipei, page 2",
          "text": "Several thousand retired servicemen on Hainan Island demonstrated against Teng Hsiao-ping's economic policies last month at the instigation of Hsu Shih-yu, deputy chairman of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Advisory Committee and a standing member of the party's Military Affairs Commission, according to an official report intercepted by the Republic of China's intelligence workers on the mainland.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →OCLC, →OL, page 426",
          "text": "On April 1, 2001, an American surveillance plane known as an EP-3 collided with a Chinese aircraft and made an emergency landing on Hainan Island. The Chinese pilot ejected from the cockpit and died. Our twenty-four-person crew was held at a military barracks on the island and interrogated. The Iranian hostage crisis was at the forefront of my mind. This was not the way I wanted to start my relationship with China.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An island off the coast of southern China."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "China",
          "China#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Places in China",
        "en:Places in Qinghai"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Qinghai",
          "Qinghai#English"
        ],
        [
          "China",
          "China#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Places in China",
        "en:Places in Inner Mongolia"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A district of Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, China."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "district",
          "district"
        ],
        [
          "Wuhai",
          "Wuhai#English"
        ],
        [
          "Inner Mongolia",
          "Inner Mongolia#English"
        ],
        [
          "China",
          "China#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/haɪˈnɑːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/haɪˈnæn/"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "hīʹnänʹ"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "alt": "Wade–Giles",
      "word": "Hai-nan"
    },
    {
      "word": "Haynan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "Hylam"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "haynān",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "هَيْنَان"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḵaynān",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "خَايْنَان"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "Haynan",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Հայնան"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Hainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "hoi² naam⁴",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "海南"
    },
    {
      "code": "cdo",
      "lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
      "roman": "Hāi-nàng",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "海南"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "roman": "Hói-nàm",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "海南"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "zh-min-nan",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "海南"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Hǎinán",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "海南"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Chaj-nan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Hainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Haïnan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Hainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "xainani",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "ხაინანი"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "Chaïnán",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Χαϊνάν"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Hajnan"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かいなん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Kainan",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "海南"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "haynaan",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "ហៃណាន"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "haynam",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "ហៃណាំ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Hainan",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "하이난"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Hainaņa"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Hainanas"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Hainanis"
    },
    {
      "code": "khb",
      "lang": "Lü",
      "roman": "xaaynaan²",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "ᦆᦻᦓᦱᧃᧉ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "Hajnan",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Хајнан"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Hainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Hailam"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "hāinān",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "हाइनान"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "khāinān",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "खाइनान"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "هاینان"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Hainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Xajnánʹ",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Хайна́нь"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "Xaynan",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Хайнан"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "hǎi-lǎm",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "ไหหลำ"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "ไห่หนาน"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "ha'e nan zhing chen",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "ཧའེ་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Hải Nam"
    },
    {
      "code": "za",
      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "province of China",
      "word": "Haijnanz"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Hainan"
  ],
  "word": "Hainan"
}

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