Samshui

English Etymology From the en zh-postal -en 1915 March Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese). https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/ Second Shanghai Far Eastern Geographical Establishment 829435521 66 https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/page/66/ The romanisation adopted isthat used by the Chinese Post Office.Samshui... ... ... zh 三水縣 "[Kwangtung] ... zh 廣東 ... 23.13N 112.50E of en yue - 三水 saam1 seoi2, when the initial of the second syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pronunciation sämʹswāʹen 1952 Samshui Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1659 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1659/ 1 Proper noun en dated en Sanshui: the Cantonese-derived name. en 1908 A. Gorton Angier The Far East Revisited: Essays on Political, Commercial, Social, and General Conditions in Malaya, China, Korea and Japan https://archive.org/details/fareastrevisited00angi/ London Witherby & Co. 4413980 130 https://archive.org/details/fareastrevisited00angi/page/130/ From Canton my route lay up the West River, and as the steamer had proceeded direct from Hong Kong to Samshui, I took the opportunity of proceeding there, over the Canton-Samshui Railway. This is a portion of the Yueh-han, or Canton-Hankow, fine, though its point of departure from Canton is on the opposite side of the river to the main line. en 1934 George Cressey George Babock Cressey China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000cres/ McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 186614458 349 https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000cres/page/349/ At Samshui the Si Kiang is connected by a short channel with the Pei Kiang, most of whose water, however, continues to the sea in a separate system of distributaries, except when one or the other is in flood. The Pei Kiang flows southward across Kwangtung from the Nan Shan and at Samshui splits up into a ramifying system of channels which cover most of the Canton Delta. At present the Si Kiang flows directly to the sea along the western side of the Delta, although in previous times it doubtless spread its waters over a wider area. en 1958 w:Arthur Waley The Opium War through Chinese Eyes https://archive.org/details/opiumwarthroughc00wale/mode/2up London George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1973 0 04 951012 6 473881182 105 https://archive.org/details/opiumwarthroughc00wale/page/104/mode/ Three days later, near Samshui (twenty-five miles from Canton) the rest of the cargo was confiscated by another band of agents. The merchant’s firm complained to the local authorities, who sent the case up to the Governor. en 2007 Rodney P. Carlisle Day by Day: The Thirties https://archive.org/details/daybydaythirties0002unse/ 2 w:Facts on File 9780816066643 2006017697 884834104 900 https://archive.org/details/daybydaythirties0002unse/page/900/ 1938Asia & The PacificNov.26[...]An area near Samshui, 30 miles from Canton, is heavily bombed by 50 planes to remove 12,000 Chinese troops. References Anagrams en ahimssu hassium shumais