Xiamen

(Wade-Giles) Hsia·men
(Wade-Giles)

[shyah-mœn]

noun

Pinyin.

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

2. a seaport on this island.

Xiamen

/ ˈʃjɑːˈmɛn /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Amoy

Example Sentences

Across the narrow strip of water, AFP could see the skyline of the Chinese city of Xiamen, the piers of China's unfinished Xiamen-Kinmen bridge and Xiamen's new international airport, due to open next year.

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"No one wants a war," said a woman surnamed Chen, whose guesthouse and eatery have a view of Xiamen's shiny skyscrapers.

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China supplies water to Kinmen, and a ferry service takes islanders to Xiamen for shopping or business, bringing Chinese tourists in return.

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"We'd been preparing and planning for this two months in advance," Lyu Yizhe, from Xiamen, told Reuters in Macau.

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As a young girl, she witnessed Chinese forces from Xiamen shelling her island during the 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.

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