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Chung-sha

Chung-sha is the alternative form of Zhongsha.

Meaning of Zhongsha

Proper noun

Zhongsha

  1. A collection of areas in the South China Sea, including Macclesfield Bank, Scarborough Shoal, Truro Shoal, and other areas claimed by China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC); some of these areas are claimed by the Philippines.
    • The Zhongsha Islands, situated to the southeast of the Xisha, are composed of more than 20 reefs and shoals.
    • The Nansha Islands contain more than 100 islets, reefs, shoals and sand bars studding the vast southern sea area south of the Zhongsha Islands.1983, China Handbook Editorial Committee [《中国手册》编辑委员会], “Territory”, in Liang Liangxing, transl., Geography [地理] (China Handbook Series), 1st edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC...

Origin of Chung-sha

From Mandarin 中沙 (Zhōngshā), Wade–Giles romanization: Chung¹-sha¹.

Questions about Chung-sha

What is Chung-sha the alternative form of?
Chung-sha is the alternative form of Zhongsha.

Words near Chung-sha in the dictionary

  1. Chung Nan Hai
  2. Chung Tu
  3. Chung Yeung Festival
  4. Chung-hsiang
  5. Chung-nan-hai
  6. Chung-sha
  7. Chung-shan
  8. Chung-tu
  9. Chungcheng
  10. Chungcheong
  11. Chungchia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chung-sha (page history and authors); Zhongsha (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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