Shantou

shāntóu Shàntóu Shant'ou Shan-t'ou English Alternative forms en Shan-t'ou Shant'ou Wade-Giles Etymology From en cmn - 汕頭 Shàntóu. Pronunciation shänʹtōʹen 1952 Swatow Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1853 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1853/ 2 Mandarin Shan-t’ou (shänʹtōʹ) en Shan tou Proper noun en prefecture-level city p/Guangdong c/China. en 1967 Gargi Dutt Rural Communes in China, Organizational Problems https://archive.org/details/ruralcommunesinc0000dutt/ New York Asia Publishing House 164440086 111–112 https://archive.org/details/ruralcommunesinc0000dutt/page/111/ A typical example was that of Shantou Special District in Kwangtung where in “full implementation” of party policies all the cadres from the brigades had been sent to the “front line of production” to lead the masses in spring planting and a total labour force of 2.42 million for the whole district, representing 81 per cent of its rural labour force, was mobilized for the purpose. December 4, 2012 w:Keith Bradsher Chinese Garment Factory Fire Kills 14 in Guangdong https://web.archive.org/web/20121205115213/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/world/asia/chinese-lingerie-factory-fire.html Asia Pacific A fire at a lingerie factory killed 14 people in Shantou, a city in the southeastern Chinese province of Guangdong, on Tuesday, official news media said. en JANUARY 26, 2020 Yilei Sun; Samuel Shen; Tony Munroe China's Shantou city will not ban cars, ships, people from entering, state media reports Tom Hogue https://web.archive.org/web/20220826202735/https://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-shantou-idINKBN1ZP06J 26 August 2022 w:Reuters World News Shantou, which is more than 800 km (500 miles) from Wuhan city in central China, had also said earlier it would suspend the operation of buses, taxis and ferries from 2 p.m. on Sunday. Synonyms from Teochew postal romanization en Swatow Translations a city of China Arabic: ar شَانْتُو m šantū Chinese: Cantonese: yue 汕頭 saan3 tau4 Hokkien: nan-hbl 汕頭 Sòaⁿ-thâu Mandarin: cmn 汕頭 Shàntóu French: fr Shantou m Hungarian: hu Santou Japanese: ja 汕頭 せんとう, Sentō Korean: ko ^산터우, ko 산두(汕頭) Sandu Russian: ru Шаньто́у m Thai: th ซัวเถา Vietnamese: vi Sán Đầu References