Hua

• enPR: hwä^[1]

From Mandarin 花 (Huā) or Mandarin 華 / 华 (Huà), which are likely cognate.

Hua (plural Huas)

1. A surname.
   • 2023 November 29, Liu Chien-ling, Evelyn Kao, “Taiwan's annual average wage rises to eight-year high: Job bank survey”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[2], archived from the original on 29 November 2023, Business‎^[3]:

     Amid a severe labor shortage, companies have boosted wages to try to attract and retain workers, driving the average annual salary to an eight-year high in 2023, said Stanley Hua (花梓馨), general manager of 104 Human Resource Institute, at a news conference, citing the results of a Taiwan salary trends survey.
     However, amid an economic slowdown, the figure represents only a 2.5 percent increase from a year ago, lower than the 3.1 percent year-on-year hike recorded last year, Hua said.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hua is the 5052^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6939 individuals. Hua is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.34%) individuals.

From Mandarin 滑 (Huá).

Hua

2. A county of Anyang, Henan, China.
   • 1997, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., “The Police Attack on Impoverished Qi Ji”, in Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins of Peasant Protest and Communist Revolution in China‎^[4], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 140:

     Some forty-five li south of Qian Kou is the market town of Bai Dao Kou. Fifteen li to the west is Dao Kou town, the capital of Hua County, Henan Province.

   • 2009, “Nie Yuanzi”, in The A to Z of the Chinese Cultural Revolution‎^[5], Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 200:

     A native of Hua County, Henan Province, Nie joined the CCP in 1938.

   • 2009 November, Fangfang Liu, Ke Chen, Zhonghu He, Tao Ning, Yaqi Pan, Hong Cai, Yang Ke, “Hepatitis C Seroprevalence and Associated Risk Factors, Anyang, China”, in Emerging Infectious Diseases‎^[6], volume 15, number 11, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1819:

     Serum samples were separated from blood samples by centrifugation and tested for HCV in the Anyang Cancer Hospital for case-patients from Anyang, Lin, and Tangyin counties, and in the Hua County Hospital for case-patients from Hua County.

   • [2022 February 23, “China Focus: Grain security high on agenda in China's spring farming season”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[7], archived from the original on 25 May 2022‎^[8]:

     Huaxian County in central China's Henan Province is a major wheat-producing area, with a wheat planting area of about 8,000 hectares this year.]

• Hua Hin

• Hau, ahu

Hua f (plural Huaren)

1. whore, prostitute, harlot