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Sanzhi

Syllables: San·zhi

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

Proper noun

Sanzhi

  1. A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
    • Lee Teng-hui was born on Jan. 15, 1923, in Sanzhi, a rural village on the outskirts of Taipei.2020 July 30, Jonathan Kandell, “Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s First Democratically Elected President, Dies at 97”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2020
    • Lee Teng-hui (李登輝), who was born on Jan. 15, 1923, in the farming community of Sanshi Village, Taihoku Prefecture — now New Taipei City’s Sanzhi District (三芝) — during the Japanese colonial era, and rose to become mayor of Taipei and not only the Republic of China’s (ROC) first Taiwan-born...2020 July 31, Sean Lin, Sherry Hsiao, “‘Mr Democracy’ a man for his time”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2020, Front Page, page 1

Forms of Sanzhi

alternative formSanchih
alternative formSanjhih

Origin of Sanzhi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 三芝 (Sānzhī).

Questions about Sanzhi

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

Words near Sanzhi in the dictionary

  1. Sanyuan
  2. Sanz
  3. sanza
  4. Sanzari
  5. sanzas
  6. Sanzhi
  7. Sanzone
  8. Sanzones
  9. SAO
  10. Sao Paulo
  11. Sao Tome

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