Xiamen

[ shyah-mœn ]

nounPinyin.
  1. an island near the Chinese mainland in the Taiwan Strait.

  2. a seaport on this island.

  • Also (Wade-Giles) Hsia·men [shyah-muhn] /ˈʃyɑˈmʌn/ .

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British Dictionary definitions for Xiamen

Xiamen

/ (ˈʃjɑːˈmɛn) /


noun
  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Amoy

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