Chikan

See also: chikan and chīkàn

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'ih-k'an (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 赤坎 (Chìkǎn).

Proper noun

Chikan

1. A town in Kaiping, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
   • 2017 August 28, He Huifeng, “Families who’ve lived in old Chinese town for generations being kicked out to make way for tourists”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 28, 2017, China‎^[2]:

     Close to 4,000 households are being forced out of a centuries-old town on the western edge of the Pearl River Delta by their local government, which has teamed up with an investment firm to turn it into a tourist attraction.
     It’s not what the residents of Chikan’s old town expected when the nearby Kaiping diaolous – fortified, multi-storey dwellings – were put on the World Heritage List by Unesco in 2007.

Synonyms

• (from Cantonese) Chek Hom, Chekhom, Chik Hom, Chikhom

Translations

town

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赤坎 (zh) (Chìkǎn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Kachin