Banan

See also: banan, bañan, banán, and banân

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 巴南 (Bānán).

Proper noun

Banan

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • 2012, Tom Miller, China's Urban Billion: The story behind the biggest migration in human history‎^[1], Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60:

     By 2006, after working in the city for nearly twenty years, Yu bought his first apartment in Chongqing’s Ban’an^{[sic – meaning Banan]} District for US$20,000, securing a 70 per cent mortgage from a local rural credit company, now part of the restructured Chongqing Rural Credit Commercial Bank.

   • 2012 April 19, Paul Stenquist, “Suzuki: Going Places Elsewhere, but Not in America”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-07‎^[3]:

     Its Indian arm, Maruti Suzuki, is the largest passenger-car manufacturer on the subcontinent, and Suzuki’s joint venture in China with Changan Automobile recently announced it would build a second plant in the Banan District of Chongqing. The plant will give the venture an annual capacity to build 500,000 cars.

   • 2014, Retail Market Study Worldwide 2014‎^[4], 6th edition, →ISBN, page 879:

     It was reported that Decathlon, the biggest global sports products retailer, is investigating the road logistics base in Banan District, which is planned to create a Southwest logistics distribution centre in Chongqing.

   • 2020 February 14, Min Zhang, Tom Daly, “China titanium producer Pangang shuts unit as coronavirus cases found”, in David Evans, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 14 February 2020, Commodities‎^[6]:

     One of China’s top titanium producers has halted production at its unit in Chongqing after members of staff were found to be infected with the new coronavirus, a local government official said on Friday.
     Pangang Group Vanadium Titanium and Resources, which produces around 220,000 tonnes per year of titanium dioxide - used as white pigment in paints, paper, plastics and textiles - subsequently put the facility in Chongqing’s Banan district under lockdown, the Banan official said.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴南 (zh) (Bānán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• banna, naban

Plautdietsch

Noun

Banan f (plural Bananen)

1. banana