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Sanming

Syllables: San·ming

Sanming proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.

Proper noun

Sanming

  1. A prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.
    • The Southeast uplands are generally poor in mineral resources, but coal and iron were evidently abundant enough to justify the construction of a medium-size integrated iron and steel plant in Fukien at Sanming during the Great Leap. Coal for the Sanming operation is mined in the Changping-Lungyen...1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170
    • In 1959, on my way to Changting from Sanming in north Fukien, the bus stopped at an eating place and I got into conversation with a young woman at the same table.1976, Hung-ying Liao, “My Old Home Revisited”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XV, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14

Examples of Sanming in a sentence

  • Coal for the Sanming operation is mined in the Changping-Lungyen district and iron ore at nearby Hwaan.1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:
  • The outbreak in Sanming city in Fujian killed 27 animals on a farm of 11,950 pigs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement on its website.2018 December 20, Hallie Gu, Tom Daly, “China confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Fujian province”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters...

Forms of Sanming

alternative formSan-ming

Origin of Sanming

From Mandarin 三明 (Sānmíng).

Questions about Sanming

What does Sanming mean?
Sanming means a prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.
How do you use Sanming in a sentence?
Coal for the Sanming operation is mined in the Changping-Lungyen district and iron ore at nearby Hwaan.
What part of speech is Sanming?
Sanming is a proper noun.

Words near Sanming in the dictionary

  1. Sanmenxia
  2. Sanmiguel
  3. Sanmiguels
  4. Sanmin
  5. Sanmin zhuyi
  6. Sanming
  7. Sanmu
  8. sann hemp
  9. sanna
  10. sannakji
  11. sannas

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