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Sanmenxia
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English
Alternative forms
en San-men-hsia Sanmenhsia Wade-Giles
Etymology
late 20th c., from the en cmn-pinyin -en 1972 Shabad Theodore Index China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 345, 361 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/361/ Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles:(1) the Post Office system,(2) the Wade-Giles system,shown after the main entry(3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parenthesesSanmensia (San-men-hsia, Sanmenxia) romanization of the en cmn 三門峽.
Pronunciation
sänʹmŭnʹshyäʹ
en San men xia
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city province/Henan c/China.
en 1961 January 1960 I. Kh. Ovdiyenko Basic Shifts in the Structure and Distribution of China's Industry Soviet Geography: Review & Translation II 1 https://archive.org/details/eurasian-geography-and-economics_1961-01_2_1/ Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, seriya geografiya, 1960, No. 2, Pages 28-32 (ru Вестник Московского университета) ru New York w:American Geographical Society 0038-5417 4356500 52 https://archive.org/details/eurasian-geography-and-economics_1961-01_2_1/page/52/ China's largest hydroelectric station is under construction at Sanmensia, and will supply power to the industrial centers of Loyang, Sian and Chengchow. on
en February 1, 2013 China highway collapse w:Deutsche Welle https://web.archive.org/web/20240202095629/https://www.dw.com/en/fireworks-truck-explodes-causes-china-highway-collapse/a-16568410 February 02, 2024 https://www.dw.com/en/fireworks-truck-explodes-causes-china-highway-collapse/a-16568410 Several vehicles were reported to have fallen from the elevated section of the highway after a truck laden with fireworks exploded, severely damaging a roughly 80-meter (262-foot) section of the road.The incident occurred near the city of Sanmenxia, to the east of Xi'an, in the inland, eastern province of Henan.
en April 14, 2019 Paul Mozur One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20190414170115/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html 0362-4331 1645522 Technology Law enforcement in the central Chinese city of Sanmenxia, along the Yellow River, ran a system that over the course of a month this year screened whether residents were Uighurs 500,000 times.
Translations
prefecture-level city
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 三門峽
Mandarin: cmn 三門峽 Sānménxiá
Japanese: ja
Marathi: mr सानमनशिआ
References
Further reading
Sanmenxia, San-men-hsia, Sanmenhsia
en 1998 Sanmenxia Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2785 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2785/ 3
en Three