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Sanshui
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English
Sanshui District
Alternative forms
en San-shui Wade-Giles
Etymology
Borrowed from en cmn - 三水 three waters.
Pronunciation
sänʹshwāʹen 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 Mandarin Sanshui (sänʹshwāʹ)
Proper noun
en district prefecture-level city/Foshan p/Guangdong c/China ; former county p/Guangdong c/China.
en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1978-05-28_19_21/ May 28, 1978 Drought striken North Free China Weekly XIX 21 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1978-05-28_19_21/page/n2/ People in some 10 counties along the West River basin in Kwangtung Province have been mobilized to join in flood-fighting or disaster relief work, with more than 10,000 in Sanshui County alone.
en MARCH 4, 2018 Huiwen Ng Grandma Mary to star in reality talent show Chinese Dream Show https://web.archive.org/web/20180304145547/https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/grandma-mary-to-star-in-reality-talent-show-chinese-dream-show 04 March 2018 w:The Straits Times This month, she will travel to the Sanshui District in Guangdong province to begin recording the show. The 10th season of Chinese Dream Show began last Sunday (Feb 25).
Synonyms
from Cantonese en Samshui, en Samsui
Translations
district of Foshan, Guangdong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 三水 saam1 seoi2
Mandarin: cmn 三水 Sānshuǐ
References
Further reading
Sanshui, San-shui, Samshui
en 1998 Sanshui 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 2786 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2786/ 2
Anagrams
en ahinssu Hussain
en 2-syllable words