Hunanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• (misspelling) Hu'nan
• (also from Wade–Giles) Hu-nan
• Hu Nan

語源

Borrowed from Mandarin 湖南 (Húnán) Wade-Giles romanization: Hu²-nan², literally “south of the lake”^[1], referring to Lake Dongting.

発音

• IPA^(key): /huːˈnɑːn/, /huːˈnæn/
• enPR: ho͞oʹnänʹ

固有名詞

Hunan

1. A province of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting. Capital: Changsha.
   • 1899 May, “Report of Permanent Committee on Christian Endeavor”, in Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church‎^[2], volume 69, Nashville, TN, page 21a:

     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.

   • 1909, “OLIGOBOTRYA HENRYI”, in Curtis's Botanical Magazine‎^[3], volume 5, page 8238:

     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.

   • 1917 April 6, “HONG KONG”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports‎^[4], number 52a, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, page 14:

     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.

   • 1948, Bernward H. Willeke, Imperial Government and Catholic Missions in China During the Years 1784-1785‎^[5], St. Bonaventure, New York: Franciscan Institute, page 31:

     On the day after the feast of Pentecost (May 31, 1784) the three boats left Chao-ch'ing and without any mishap passed all the customs stations in Kwangtung, Kwangsi and Hunan.

   • 1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “Beginnings (1924-1927)”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎^[6], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 42–43:

     The first task was to clear the Hunan province of all hostile forces so as to make it possible for the various armies to converge on Wuhan area, including Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang on the Yangtze.

   • 1976 August 29, “Mao Tse-tung's four marriages”, in Free China Weekly‎^[7], volume XVII, number 34, Taipei, page 3:

     Mao was born in Hunan in November 1893.

   • 1999, Red Pine, Mike O'Connor, editors, The Clouds Should Know Me By Now‎^[8], →ISBN, page 44:

     Ch'i-chi, whose family name was Hu, was born in the Ch'ang-sha area of Hunan.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hunan.

参考

参照

固有名詞

Hu Nan

1. Alternative form of Hunan
   • 1888, E. H. Parker, Chinese Account of the Opium War‎^[1], OCLC 906466375, OL 23286287M, page 27:

     The thousand or so of men newly arrived from Hu Nan were at once sent by K'ISHEN to the front. The Cantonese fled the moment the engagement began; but the Hu Nan men fought as they retreated, and half of them were drowned, together with their Commander SIANGFUH.

   • 1889, Nineteenth Annual Report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America‎^[2], New York: Presbyterian House, OCLC 48392268, page 136:

     From Kong Wa, a district in the Southern Hu Nan Province, the names of ten men have been sent to Lien Chow as inquirers and applicants for baptism. During the year four men from Hu Nan, one a literary graduate, have been baptized and received into the Lien Chow church, all bearing testimony to the spirit of inquiry that is spreading among the people in that district.

   • 1898 September, W. R. Carles, “THE YANGTSE CHIANG”, in The Geographical Journal‎^[3], volume XII, number 3, ISSN 0016-7398, OCLC 905927071, page 236:

     It is said at Hankau that boats can travel up stream 4000 li by three different routes—the Yangtse Chiang, the Yuan river in Hu Nan, and the Han river.

   • [1898, Archibald John Little, “Shanghai to Ichang”, in Through the Yang-tse Gorges‎^[4], 3rd edition, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, OCLC 1098571240, page 33:

     We passed the walled district city of I-tu, situated upon a small affluent called the Ching Chiang, or Clear River, which takes its rise in the province of Hu-Nan to the south.]

   • 1997, Jim Nisbet, Prelude to a Scream‎^[5], →ISBN, LCCN 97-6787, OCLC 489681064, OL 661349M, page 99:

     The family that had brought Hop Toy to the United States as a little boy were from the Hu Nan province, whose food was reputed to be hot, spicy, and wholesome. But they eschewed nothing edible, so far as Stanley could tell; any kind of vegetable, fish, fowl or meat, the Hu Nan kitchen could countenance it, and prepare it well.

   • 2007, Leonard C. Meeker, Philosophy and Politics‎^[6], →ISBN, LCCN 2007900715, OCLC 505000102, OL 8513383M, page 255:

     It was then that Mao Tse-tung, who had his roots in rural central China, proclaimed that Chinese Communism must be based on the peasantry. Quite independent of Moscow, he built a new Communist movement in rural Hu Nan Province in central China.

   • 2008, Lester A. Mitscher, Victoria Dolby Toews, The Green Tea Book: The Science-Backed "Miracle Cure"‎^[7], →ISBN, LCCN 2007032840, OCLC 1020186730, OL 18277538M, page 90:

     A clinical investigation of the possible benefits of green tea poly' phenols for radiation and chemotherapy patients was conducted at the Hu Nan province Hospital of Carcinology in China.

   • 2009, Y.J. Zhu, “Taklamakan Desert Moon Ride”, in Lucy McCauley, editor, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World (Travelers' Tales)‎^[8], →ISBN, ISSN 1553-054X, OCLC 234438230, OL 23120660M, page 175:

     He rides a Yellow Hornet and is from Hu Nan province. We have chatted about our bikes in the sandstorm.

使用する際の注意点

The misspelling Hu'nan attempts to make clear that 湖南 (Húnán) is made up of the two Mandarin syllables hu and nan instead of hun and an.^[1] However, in theory, this clarification is not needed because the syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)) should only be added before a non-initial syllable beginning with a, o, or e. Hence, Hunan could only ever refer to a word made up of hu and nan since a word made up of hun and an would be spelled as Hun'an. In practice, syllable-dividing marks are often added or omitted at will.

参照

Further reading

• Hu'nan at Google Ngram Viewer
• “Hu'nan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.