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  • noun A city in Anhui province, China.

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Examples

  • Associated Press A Chinese police officer flies into his comrades' arms in a team-building exercise in Huainan, south of Beijing, on Monday.

    Arab Outcry, Big Speech, Investing Coup 2011

  • According to the Book of the Prince of Huainan, this cornucopia was made possible by the wisdom of the Three Emperors, who—according to myth—ruled 5,000 years ago at the dawn of Chinese civilization.17 They were depicted as masters of restraint:

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • According to the Book of the Prince of Huainan, this cornucopia was made possible by the wisdom of the Three Emperors, who—according to myth—ruled 5,000 years ago at the dawn of Chinese civilization.17 They were depicted as masters of restraint:

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • As noted in earlier chapters, this was true two thousand years ago of Liu An, the Taoist naturalist who is thought to have compiled the Book of the Prince of Huainan.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • According to the Book of the Prince of Huainan, this cornucopia was made possible by the wisdom of the Three Emperors, who—according to myth—ruled 5,000 years ago at the dawn of Chinese civilization.17 They were depicted as masters of restraint:

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • As noted in earlier chapters, this was true two thousand years ago of Liu An, the Taoist naturalist who is thought to have compiled the Book of the Prince of Huainan.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • As noted in earlier chapters, this was true two thousand years ago of Liu An, the Taoist naturalist who is thought to have compiled the Book of the Prince of Huainan.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The final choice, 谷歌 (goo-guh, song of the grain), appeared to Google's Asia Pacific Chief Marketing Officer, Wang Huainan, late in 2005.

    Boing Boing: April 9, 2006 - April 15, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Death of Liu An, prince of Huainan who directed the compilation of a compendium, the Huainanzi, primarily of Daoist philosophical interest.

    201 B.C.E 2001

  • Huainan, a coal-mining city in China, hopes to catch the world's attention with an Olympic Park filled with bizarre-shaped buildings.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Douglas McArthur 2011

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