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Shunde
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English
Alternative forms
en Shun-te Shun-tê Wade-Giles
Etymology
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, 362 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/362/ 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 parenthesesShuntak (Shunte, Shunde) romanization of the en cmn - 順德 Shùndé.
Pronunciation
sho͝onʹdǔʹen 1952 Shuntak Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1759 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1759/ 1 Shuntak (so͝onʹdǔkʹ), Mandarin Shunte (sho͝onʹdǔʹ),
en Shun te
Proper noun
en district prefecture-level city/Foshan province/Guangdong c/China.
en 1984 Andrea Sankar Spinster Sisterhoods: Jing Yih Sifu: Spinster-Domestic-Nun Mary Sheridan; Janet W. Salaff Lives: Chinese Working Women https://archive.org/details/liveschinesework0000unse/ Bloomington w:Indiana University Press 0-253-33604-X 83-48401 10146697 53 https://archive.org/details/liveschinesework0000unse/page/53/ https://books.google.com/books?id=U-8pAAAAYAAJ Sifu was born in 1899 in the village of Lungsan in Shunte county of Kwangtung. She had an older brother and a younger brother. on
en 1998 Graham E. Johnson; Yuen-fong Woon Social Values and Development Patterns in South China: The Case of the Pearl River Delta Region in the 1900s w:Harold Coward Traditional and Modern Approaches to the Environment on the Pacific Rim: Tensions and Values https://archive.org/details/traditionalmoder00cowa/ w:State University of New York Press 0-7914-3846-5 98-9800 38438432 224 https://archive.org/details/traditionalmoder00cowa/page/224/ Because it is less reliant on Hong Kong capital, Shunde's industrial product mix differs significantly from that of Dongguan. It is less involved with textiles, toys, and plastics destined for re-export through Hong Kong. Shunde is known throughout China for its high quality domestic appliances, such as fans, refrigerators, rice cookers, sterilizers, washing machines, and air conditioners. China's domestic market is in fact more significant than the world market in Shunde's industrial development.
November 22, 2015 Desiree Au The Glow of 24-Karat Gold Jewelry https://web.archive.org/web/20151122220843/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/fashion/the-glow-of-24-karat-gold-jewelry.html FASHION & STYLE Chow Tai Fook has a gold crafting plant in Shunde, a city in Guangdong Province, with six artists producing designs rendered by 3,000 craftsmen working with simple tools such as torches, small chisels and picks.
Synonyms
from Cantonese en Shun Tak, en Shuntak
Translations
district in Foshan
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 順德 seon6 dak1
Mandarin: cmn 順德 Shùndé
Japanese: ja 順徳 じゅんとく, Jyuntoku
References
Anagrams
en dehnsu unshed