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Shamchun

Shamchun is the alternative spelling of Shenzhen.

Meaning of Shenzhen

Proper noun

Shenzhen

  1. A major subprovincial city of Guangdong, in southeastern China.
    • Encyclopædia Britannica
      In 1979 Shenzhen was a small border city of some 30,000 inhabitants that served as a customs stop into mainland China from Hong Kong.
    Synonyms:
    Shumchun, Shum-chun, Shamchun, Sham Chun

Origin of Shamchun

Borrowed from Cantonese 深圳 (sam1 zan3).

Questions about Shamchun

What is Shamchun the alternative spelling of?
Shamchun is the alternative spelling of Shenzhen.

Words near Shamchun in the dictionary

  1. shambroughs
  2. shambuk
  3. shambuks
  4. shamburger
  5. shamburgers
  6. Shamchun
  7. shamdemic
  8. shamdemics
  9. shame
  10. shame be to him who thinks evil of it
  11. shame job

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Shamchun (page history and authors); Shenzhen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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