Nanshi
Syllables: Nan·shi
Nanshi proper noun: a district of Shanghai, China.
Proper noun
Nanshi
- A district of Shanghai, China.
- Some peasants may have come to teach them how to use a hoe and when to plant, but most of their contacts were with other city people. In 1965, a group of 150 volunteers from Nanshih District, Shanghai, founded the Hsints’un (New Village) Brigade, in T’aochuang Commune of Chiashan County, Chekiang.[1978, Lynn T. White, III, “Citizenship Incentives”, in Careers in Shanghai: The Social Guidance of Personal Energies in a Developing Chinese City, 1949-1966, Berkeley; Los Angeles; London...
- SHANGHAI'S Nanshi district, which includes the southern Bund area, plans to build a cable car system to Pudong across the Huangpu River to boost retail activities on both banks.1996 February 1, Elaine Chan, “Nanshi plans cable car project”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2024
- Synonyms:
- Nantao
Synonyms of Nanshi
Origin of Nanshi
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南市.
Questions about Nanshi
- What does Nanshi mean?
- Nanshi means a district of Shanghai, China.
- What part of speech is Nanshi?
- Nanshi is a proper noun.
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