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Chungshan

Chungshan is the alternative form of Zhongshan.

Meaning of Zhongshan

Proper noun

Zhongshan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southern China.
    • The chief town of Zhongshan, Shiqi (formerly spelt Shekkei) has been an important market centre and inland port for 800 years.1990, Shann Davies, Macau, Passport Books, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 137
    Synonyms:
    Heungshan, Xiangshan
  2. A district of the city of Taipei, Taiwan.
    • Many trendy and expensive restaurants can be found in and around Taipei 101. The Jhongshan district is full of nightclubs and Karoake bars and has remnants of Japanese forms of entertainment.[2008, Nick French, Asian Ways: A Westerner's Guide to Asian Business Etiquette, Aardvark Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 59
  3. A district of the city of Keelung, Taiwan.
  4. A district of the city of Dalian, Liaoning, China.
  5. A district of the city of Liupanshui, Guizhou, China.
  6. A station of Taipei Metro in Taipei, Taiwan.

See all 7 meanings of Zhongshan

Origin of Chungshan

Borrowed from Mandarin 中山 (Zhōngshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Chung¹-shan¹. Chungshan is also a romanization of Cantonese 中山 (zung1 saan1), the name of the city in Guangdong, China, and it coincides with its Mandarin romanization of Chungshan.

Questions about Chungshan

What is Chungshan the alternative form of?
Chungshan is the alternative form of Zhongshan.

Words near Chungshan in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chungshan (page history and authors); Zhongshan (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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