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Bishan
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English
Pronunciation
en /ˈbiːʃɑːn/, bēʹshänʹen 1952 Pishan Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1480 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1480/ 1
en æn 2
en Bi shan
Etymology 1
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 碧山.
Proper noun
A planning area and residential town in Singapore.
Etymology 2
Bishan District
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 璧山.
Alternative forms
en Pishan
Proper noun
en district city/Chongqing c/China.
en 1940 Report of Work in China The Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report 1939 https://archive.org/details/the-rockefeller-foundation-annual-report-1939/ New York 363 https://archive.org/details/the-rockefeller-foundation-annual-report-1939/page/363/ These considerations led recently to a decision to remove the Institute to Pishan county in Szechwan, where, as the Institute of Rural Research and Training, it plans to collaborate closely with the Mass Education Movement, and resume cooperation on a university basis with its member institutions. on
en 1979 Lynn T. White III Local Newspapers and Community Change, 1949-1969 Godwin C. Chu; w:Francis L. K. Hsu Moving a Mountain: Cultural Change in China https://archive.org/details/movingmountaincu00chug/ 0-8248-0667-0 79-22037 5495741 102 https://archive.org/details/movingmountaincu00chug/page/102/ When by 1958 it was announced that Pishan County in Szechwan had 113 local mimeographed papers, this trend was praised in Peking: "If the articles are about local persons and local happenings, the masses like to read them." on
en 2018/12/18 Tom Daly China agriculture ministry confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Chongqing David Evans https://web.archive.org/web/20220620225743/https://jp.reuters.com/article/china-swinefever-idINB9N1WP020 20 June 2022 w:Reuters Non-cyclical Consumer Goods The virus was detected on a farm with 23 pigs in Chongqing’s Bishan district, infecting eight animals and killing three, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.
en 2020 Namrata Goswami; Peter Garretson Peter A. Garretson Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space https://books.google.com/books?id=3XsGEAAAQBAJ w:Lexington Books 978-1-4985-8311-4 2020943851 1190786306 202 In continuation of such statements, China became the first country in the world to establish a state-funded SBSP base plant in Chongqing's Bishan district in 2019.
Translations
district
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 璧山
Japanese: ja
Marathi: mr पिशान m
Further reading
en 2008 Bishan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 437 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/437/ 1
References
Anagrams
en abhins Bhasin ash-bin ashbin banish bash in bashin' nisbah
en Places in Singapore