WuHanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Wu-han

1. Alternative spelling of Wuhan.
   • 1948 March, W. Robert Moore, “Along the Yangtze, Main Street of China”, in National Geographic Magazine‎, volume XCIII, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 341:

     At the moment much industry of the Wu-han Cities is at a standstill.

   • 1965, James Cameron, Here is Your Enemy‎, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 16–17:

     My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity.

   • 1967, Yuan-li Wu, The Spatial Economy of Communist China‎, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192:

     Logically, coal should have been imported from the P’ing-ting-shan mine which is far closer to the Wu-han market.

   • 1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 11, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 902, column 1:

     The population is mostly concentrated in the eastern lowlands where the Han river joins the Yangtze at the great tri-city metropolis of Wu-han (q.v.).

   • 1975, Wu-han (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities)‎, Central Intelligence Agency, page 2:

     The Wu-han cities are physically separated by the rivers: Han-k'ou and Han-yang are located on the left bank of the Yangtze and north and south of the Han Shui, respectively; Wu-ch'ang lies on the right bank of the Yangtze.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wu-han.

参照

Further reading

• “Wu-han”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Wu-han” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.

別の表記

• Wu-han, Wu-Han (Wade–Giles)
• WuHan, Wu Han, Wu-han (colloquial)

語源

From Mandarin 武漢／武汉 (Wǔhàn), from 武昌 (Wǔchāng) + 漢口／汉口 (Hànkǒu), two of the three towns that were merged to form Wuhan.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwuːˈhɑːn/; (uncommon, anglicized) /-ˈhæn/; (rare, emulating Chinese) /uːˈhɑːn/
• enPR: wo͞oʹhänʹ
• 韻: -ɑːn
• ハイフネーション: Wu‧han

固有名詞

Wuhan

1. A subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Hubei, China.
   • 1912 February, “Famine Notes”, in The Chinese Recorder‎, volume XLIII, number 2, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 95:

     The Committee reports that in consequence of the combined effects of the war and famine added to flood an amount of destitution exists among the population in the Wuhan region which is without parallel in the memory of foreign residents. Now that the refugees are returning to Hankow there is a demand for building materials, clothing and food stuffs.

   • 1971, Deborah S. Davis, “The Cultural Revolution in Wuhan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces‎, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 169:

     Yet charges that Wuhan was run like an independent kingdom contained an element of truth. Firmly entrenched in Wuhan for more than ten years, the PLA had become accustomed to acting independently.

   • 1973 March 4, “Starving farmers given jail terms”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XIV, number 8, Taipei, page 3:

     More than 30 persons, most of them farmers on the verge of starving to death, were convicted of "counter-revolutionary" charges at kangaroo court in Wuhan and given sentences ranging from two to 12 years, it was reported from Hongkong February 25.
     . . .
     Wuhan is the collective name of Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang at the confluence of the Yangtze and Han rivers in Hupei province, central China.
     Some of the farmers were arrested in Wuhan parks where they allegedly spoke against Maoism and the Communist dictatorship, the report said.
     Others were charged with breaking into a Communist granary in Wuhan, it said.

   • 2019 December 31, “China investigates SARS-like virus as dozens struck by pneumonia”, in Deutsche Welle‎, archived from the original on 31 December 2019, News‎:

     Chinese health authorities on Tuesday said they are investigating 27 cases of viral pneumonia in central Hubei province, amid online speculation that it could be linked to the SARS flu-like virus that killed hundreds of people a decade ago.
     A team of senior health experts were dispatched to the city of Wuhan and were reported by state broadcaster CCTV to be "conducting relevant inspection and verification work."

   • 2023 June 23, Julian E. Barnes, “U.S. Intelligence Agencies Remain Divided Over Lab Leak Theory”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 June 2023, Politics‎:

     Intelligence agencies do not believe the case of three workers from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, who became ill in 2019 can help shed light on whether the Covid-19 pandemic originated from an accidental lab leak, according to a report made public Friday.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Wuhan.

派生語

参照

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuhan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 2
• Wuhan, Wu-han, Wu Han, Wu-Han, WuHan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.