厦门市

廈門市

Xiàménshì

popculture

Meanings

1 Xiamen (sub-provincial city in Fujian, Special Economic Zone, known for Gulangyu island)

Characters

Examples

厦门市的气候非常宜人。

Xiàménshì de qìhòu fēicháng yírén.

Xiamen has a very pleasant climate.

厦门市是最早开放的经济特区之一。

Xiàménshì shì zuì zǎo kāifàng de jīngjì tèqū zhī yī.

Xiamen is one of the earliest opened Special Economic Zones.

Tips

culture

Gulangyu (鼓浪屿), the tiny car-free island off Xiamen, is a UNESCO World Heritage site packed with 19th-century colonial villas — a legacy of its treaty-port years as Amoy. Locally the city is called Amoy /E-moi/ in Hokkien, the origin of the old romanization.

memory

厦 means 'mansion' and 门 means 'gate' — Xiamen is literally the 'Gateway of Mansions', a fitting name for a prosperous coastal trade port.

Stroke Order

厦 xià

门 mén

市 shì