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

"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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Decades on, she welcomes day trippers from Xiamen at her shop.

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Much of Kinmen's economy is now geared towards serving Chinese tourists who take ferries across the narrow waterway from Xiamen, the nearest Chinese city.

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The US Treasury said it had sanctioned Xiamen Limbach Aircraft Engine Co - which makes engines that power Russia's Garpiya long-range drones - and Redlepus Vector Industry Shenzhen Co for its involvement in shipment.

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