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Chungsha

Chungsha 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 Chungsha

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

Questions about Chungsha

What is Chungsha the alternative form of?
Chungsha is the alternative form of Zhongsha.

Words near Chungsha in the dictionary

  1. Chungking
  2. Chungkuo Kuomintang
  3. Chungli
  4. Chungming
  5. Chungnanhai
  6. Chungsha
  7. Chungshan
  8. chungus
  9. chunguses
  10. Chungyang
  11. Chungyang Shanmo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chungsha (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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