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Jishan

/d͡ʒiˈʃɑn/

Jishan proper noun: a county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Jishan

  1. A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
    • Comrade Zuo Ming was born in 1921 in Jishan County, Shanxi Province. He took part in the revolution in 1930 and joined the CPC in 1938.1983 June 16 [1983 May 26], Xu Shijie, quotee, “Guangdong's Ren Zhongyi Attends Memorial Meeting”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 117, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from...
    • In their first paper (T. Hong et al., 1992), Paeonia ostii was described as a new tree peony that is widely cultivated in China for medicine; P. jishanensis was described as a new species from Jishan County, Shanxi Province, and was stated to differ from P. suffruticosa var. spontanea Rehder in...2010, De-Yuan Hong, “History of Taxonomic Studies of Paeonia”, in Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19

Forms of Jishan

alternative formChi-shan
alternative formChishan

Origin of Jishan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 稷山 (Jìshān).

Words that rhyme with Jishan

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Questions about Jishan

What does Jishan mean?
Jishan means a county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
What part of speech is Jishan?
Jishan is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Jishan?
Jishan is pronounced /d͡ʒiˈʃɑn/.

Words near Jishan in the dictionary

  1. jirra
  2. jirre
  3. jirtig
  4. JIS
  5. jisei
  6. Jishan
  7. Jishnu
  8. Jishou
  9. Jishui
  10. jislaaik
  11. jism

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