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Nansi

Syllables: Nan·si

Nansi proper noun: a lake in Jining, Shandong, China.

Proper noun (1)

Nansi

  1. A lake in Jining, Shandong, China.
    • Nansi Lake is also part of the South-North Water Transfer Project, a multi-billion dollar effort to move Yangtze River water through canals and reservoirs into the Yellow River watershed in arid northern China. Nansi Lake helps convey some of that water and serves as a storage point on the...2014 March 21, “Nansi Lake, China”, in NASA, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2019
    • Nansi Lake is also a recipient of medical, sewage treatment plant, livestock and aquaculture wastewater, which are the major sources of antibiotic pollution. In 2009, the aquaculture area of the Nansi Lake Basin reached 735.01 km2 with 0.495 million fishery products, and the numbers of cows, pigs...2020 March, Guodong Zhang, Xiaohuii Liu, Shaoyang Lu, Jinpeng Zhang, Weiliang Wang, “Occurrence of typical antibiotics in Nansi Lake’s inflowing rivers and antibiotic source contribution to Nansi...

Proper noun (2)

Nansi

  1. A district of Tainan, Taiwan.
    • The vulnerability of Annan, North, West Central, Rende, and Nansi is ranked as secondary high, and the vulnerability of Baihe, Danei, Yujing, and South is intermediate.2012, Yu-Chen Lin, Tzong-Yeang Lee, Hung-Chih Shih, “Assessment of the Vulnerability and Risk of Climate Change on Water Supply and Demand in Taijiang Area”, in International Journal of Environmental...
    • Samples from Jhongpu, Fanlu, Nansi and Yuzing show an average tritium concentration of 1.33 TU (Table 4), which is marginally lower than the precipitation of Central Taiwan (1.6 TU)reported by Peng et al. (2007).2014, S. Sengupta et al., “Spatial variation of groundwater arsenic distribution in the Chianan Plain, SW Taiwan: Role of local hydrogeological factors and geothermal sources”, in Journal of...

Examples of Nansi in a sentence

  • Nansi Lake helps convey some of that water and serves as a storage point on the project’s eastern route, which began operating in December 2013.2014 March 21, “Nansi Lake, China”, in NASA, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2019:
  • Nansi Lake is also a recipient of medical, sewage treatment plant, livestock and aquaculture wastewater, which are the major sources of antibiotic pollution.2020 March, Guodong Zhang, Xiaohuii Liu, Shaoyang Lu, Jinpeng Zhang, Weiliang Wang, “Occurrence of typical antibiotics in Nansi Lake’s...
  • Nansi Lake Basin is located in the southwest of Shandong Province, China, which is a typical area affected by fluorosis due to high F⁻ in drinking water.2023 December 15, Chunli Su, Mengzhu Wang, Xianjun Xie, Zhantao Han, Jiaqi Jiang, Zhen Wang, Dawei Xiao, “Natural and anthropogenic factors...
  • It's 25km of rolling pitch from the start of the 175 to Nansi.2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan, 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 253:

Forms of Nansi

alternative formNanhsi
alternative formNan-hsi
alternative Hanyu-PinyinNanxi

Origin of Nansi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南四.

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 楠西 (Nánsi, literally “west of Nanzihsian River”).

Questions about Nansi

What does Nansi mean?
Nansi means a lake in Jining, Shandong, China.
How do you use Nansi in a sentence?
Nansi Lake helps convey some of that water and serves as a storage point on the project’s eastern route, which began operating in December 2013.
What part of speech is Nansi?
Nansi is a proper noun.

Words near Nansi in the dictionary

  1. Nansen passport
  2. Nansen passports
  3. Nansha
  4. Nanshan
  5. Nanshi
  6. Nansi
  7. Nansledan
  8. Nanson
  9. Nanstallon
  10. nansy pansy
  11. Nant Peris

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