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Sanxia

Syllables: San·xia

Sanxia proper noun: a district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Proper noun

Sanxia

  1. A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
    • The festival is organized on four levels. The highest of these includes all the inhabitants of the southern Taibei Basin who are of Anxi origin: everyone in Sanxia township; people living in those parts of Shulin township that are closest to, and formally part of, the economic as well as the ritual...1982, Stevan Harrell, Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan [犁舌尾], Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 184, 217

Forms of Sanxia

alternative formSanhsia
alternative formSansia

Origin of Sanxia

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 三峽 (Sānxiá).

Questions about Sanxia

What does Sanxia mean?
Sanxia means a district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
What part of speech is Sanxia?
Sanxia is a proper noun.

Words near Sanxia in the dictionary

  1. Sanussian
  2. Sanussis
  3. Sanville
  4. Sanvilles
  5. sanwa
  6. Sanxia
  7. sanxian
  8. sanxians
  9. Sanya
  10. Sanyakoan
  11. sanyaku

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