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Fo-shan

Fo-shan is the alternative form of Foshan.

Meaning of Foshan

Proper noun

Foshan

  1. A large prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southeast China.
    • At Foshan, about four leagues above Canton, Père Bouvet speaks of a Milanese Jesuit as presiding over a church, with a flock of 10,000 persons : at this day there is probably not one single individual at that same place.1836, John Francis Davis, The Chinese : A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants, volume 1, New-York: Harper & Brothers, page 38
    Synonyms:
    Fatshan, Fat Shan

Origin of Fo-shan

An English-derived romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 佛山 (Fóshān).

Questions about Fo-shan

What is Fo-shan the alternative form of?
Fo-shan is the alternative form of Foshan.

Words near Fo-shan in the dictionary

  1. fo'castles
  2. fo'ever
  3. Fo-chan
  4. Fo-kien
  5. Fo-kyen
  6. Fo-shan
  7. fo.
  8. FOA
  9. FOAB
  10. FOAD
  11. foaf

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Fo-shan (page history and authors); Foshan (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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