Wen'an

See also: wenan, wĕnaṅ, wén'àn, wèn'ān, wèn'àn, and Wén'ān

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 文安 (Wén'ān).

Proper noun

Wen'an

  1. A county of Langfang, Hebei, China.
    • 2019 May 28, Raymond Zhong, Carolyn Zhang, “Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2019, Technology‎[2]:
      For years, Mao Da, an environmental researcher, has studied the plastic industry in Wen’an County, near Beijing. Workers there used to sort through food and medical waste by hand, he said. Nonrecyclable material was buried in pits near farmland.
      “It was an environmental and public health catastrophe,” Mr. Mao said.

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