Hunan
Americannoun
-
Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in S China. 81,274 sq. mi. (210,500 sq. km). Changsha.
-
Chinese Cooking. Also Hunam a style of cooking from this province, characterized especially by the use of hot peppers.
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Zhu grew up near Hunan province’s capital Changsha and was raised by uncles, since he never knew his father and his mother died before he turned 10.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Trust in quality created by certification can greatly reduce consumers’ decision-making costs,” said Duan Yunchao, chairman and CEO of Hunan Zhongma Jiakai International Trade Services, a business that helps Chinese companies expand overseas.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
The study was led by an international team that included Professor Minxue Shen from the Xiangya School of Public Health at Central South University in Hunan, China.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 30, 2026
The site where the fossils were found in the southern Chinese province of Hunan was "extraordinary," Han Zeng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
To effect this, the old province of Kiangsan was divided into the modern Anhui and Kiangsu; Kansuh was carved out of Shensi; and Hukuang was separated into Hupeh and Hunan.
From China and the Manchus by Herbert Allen Giles
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
