Huáiyīn xiànzài shì Jiāngsūshěng Huái'ānshì de yí ge qū.
Huaiyin is today a district of Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province.
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history
Famous as the hometown of Han Xin (韩信), the brilliant Han-dynasty general who helped Liu Bang win the empire. The idiom 胯下之辱 (humiliation of crawling between a bully's legs) comes from Han Xin's youth in Huaiyin.
memory
淮 (Huai River) + 阴 (south side, shaded). In Chinese geography, 阴 means the south bank of a river or the north side of a mountain. So Huaiyin = 'south bank of the Huai'.
