The game was called 麻雀 (), meaning sparrow in Chinese, which is still the name most commonly used in some southern Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Min Nan, as well as in Japanese.

< td colspan =" 5 " align =" center "> Chinese convention: ( Liu ) or ( Nan ) Song + posthumous name +" di ".

Usage of the current Chinese name, Nan Hai ( South Sea ), became gradually widespread during the Qing Dynasty.

The Zhangzhou dialect of Min Nan reads these characters as " ε ̄- mûi ", the source of the name " Amoy ".

Later, the authorities found " 下門 " too unrefined and changed the name to the modern toponym "", which has the same pronunciation in Mandarin — not in Min Nan, however — and literally means " The Gate of the Grand Mansion ".

The name continues to be pronounced in Min Nan, effectively using the older name.

She tells him she is new in town, her name is Nan, and asks if he could show her the town.

" As taught by Nan Huaijin, the name of Amitābha Buddha is recited slowly, and the mind is emptied out after each repetition.

Fanny was given the name ‘ Phyllis Nan S. Pechey ’.

The provincial capital of Phitsanulok is sometimes called Song Kwae, the city of two rivers, an ancient name dating to a time centuries ago when the Nan and Khwae Noi rivers met near the city.

Like the gold medalist Sohn Kee-Chung, Nam Sung-Yong used the Japanese pronunciation of his name, Nan Shōryū

Nan Elmoth ( the name in Sindarin, or Doriathrin Elvish, means: Valley of the Starry Pool ) is the first forest in the interior history that has many of the themes afterwards seen in Doriath, the Old Forest, and Fangorn Forest.

The Portuguese and English name " Taipa " comes from the Chinese pronunciation of 氹仔 in Min Nan // ( similar to " tiamp-a ") then became " Taipa ".

On 20 May 1905, he married Annie Mortimer " Nan " Noble, daughter of the box-office manager of the Alhambra Theatre, who sang professionally in the soprano range under the name Annette George.

As O ' Nan and others have pointed out, the most likely scenario is that a family claiming a body early on mistakenly identified Eleanor Cook as their own child and she is buried under that child's name.

The EM algorithm was explained and given its name in a classic 1977 paper by Arthur Dempster, Nan Laird, and Donald Rubin.

The name Chi Nan ( north to south ) comes from Chapter of Tribune of Yu of Classic of History, where a passage reads: " His speech and teachings spread from north to south, until they reached the four corners of the world.

These two organizations are directly related to National Chi Nan University in Puli, Nantou County, and traditionally, the name Chi Nan conveys the University's mission of education beyond China.

The name Nan Madol means " spaces between " and is a reference to the canals that crisscross the ruins.

* Nan Madol is the name of an album recorded by Edward Vesala in 1974.

* Gan, a common family name in South East Asia of typically Chinese descent from Fujian who speak the Min Nan or Hokkien dialect.

* Nan Geng, posthumous name of a Shang Dynasty King of China

In individual cartoons, she was called " Nancy Lee " or " Nan McGrew " – derived from the 1930 Helen Kane film Dangerous Nan McGrew – usually serving as a girlfriend to studio star, Bimbo.

Nancy " Nan " Goldin ( born, September 12, 1953, Washington, D. C .) is an American photographer.

* Nancy → Nan

* Anne → Annie → Nan → Nancy

* TCM Remembers 2000: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Nancy Coleman, Rose Hobart, Muriel Evans, Steve Reeves, Gwen Verdon, Francis Lederer, Nan Leslie, director Don Weis, director Roger Vadim, Joan Marsh, Billy Barty, costume designer Bill Thomas, Max Showalter, Vittorio Gassman, Marie Windsor, Craig Stevens, David Tomlinson, Richard Farnsworth, director Claude Autant-Lara, film preserver James Card, Beah Richards, Julie London, Marceline Day, Nancy Marchand, Harold Nicholas, Nils Poppe, director Joseph H. Lewis, composer George Duning, director Lewis Allen, Ann Doran, Jean Peters, editor David Bretherlen, writer Curt Siodmak, screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr., Alec Guinness, Loretta Young, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor and Walter Matthau.

Nancy " Nan " Astley is a sheltered 18-year-old living with her working-class family and helping in their oyster restaurant in Whitstable, Kent.

Other friends include Nancy Reagan, Joan Collins and Nan Kempner.

Nearly 1, 000 artists are represented, including Magdalena Abakanowicz, Lynda Benglis, Rosa Bonheur, Chakaia Booker, Louise Bourgeois, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Rosalba Carriera, Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Catlett, Judy Chicago, Camille Claudel, Louisa Courtauld, Petah Coyne, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Elaine de Kooning, Lesley Dill, Helen Frankenthaler, Marguerite Gérard, Nan Goldin, Nancy Graves, Grace Hartigan, Frida Kahlo, Angelica Kauffmann, Käthe Kollwitz, Lee Krasner, Justine Kurland, Bettye Lane, Marie Laurencin, Hung Liu, Judith Leyster, Maria Martinez, Maria Sibylla Merian, Joan Mitchell, Gabriele Münter, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Sarah Miriam Peale, Clara Peeters, Lilla Cabot Perry, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Rachel Ruysch, Elisabetta Sirani, Joan Snyder, Lilly Martin Spencer, Alma Thomas, Suzanne Valadon, and Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun.

With his wife, Nancy West, John Vernon was the father of actress Kate Vernon, Nan Vernon, and son Chris Vernon.

It should be noted that although Helen was not the " star " of most of her pictures ( with Dangerous Nan McGrew being the one exception ) she was so popular that in the case of " Sweetie ," her name appeared over the title on the marquee when the movie premiered at the New York Paramount ( although Nancy Carroll was the true star ).

Her father was actor John Vernon, who was most famous for playing Dean Vernon Wormer in Animal House, her mother is Nancy West, and her sister is singer / actress Nan Vernon.

* Nan Agle, author of children's books, died at the age of 100 at her home in Sykesville, following a fall.

* David Hatcher Childress, an author of travel guides, speculates that Nan Madol is connected to the lost continent of Lemuria.

* Nan C. Robertson ( 1926 – 2009 ), Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, author and teacher

Nan Koehler is an American author and midwife.

Nan Goldin, Christmas at the Other Side, Boston, 1972, gelatin-silver print, 16 x 20 inches

On 20 September 2007 BALTIC management contacted Northumbria Police for advice regarding whether or not a photograph should be displayed as part of the Thanksgiving installation, a forthcoming exhibition by American photographer Nan Goldin.

In 1979, 20 advocacy organizations joined to form the Alliance for Justice under its founder, Nan Aron.

On November 12, 2006, Ialá was elected head of the PRS again at the party's third congress, with about 70 % of the vote ; the previous leader, Nan Beia, received 20 %.