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Shan-t'ou

Shan-t'ou is the alternative form of Shantou.

Meaning of Shantou

Proper noun

Shantou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
    • A typical example was that of Shantou Special District in Kwangtung where in “full implementation” of party policies all the cadres from the brigades had been sent to the “front line of production” to lead the masses in spring planting and a total labour force of 2.42 million for the whole...1967, Gargi Dutt, Rural Communes in China, Organizational Problems, New York: Asia Publishing House, →OCLC, pages 111–112
    Synonyms:
    Swatow

Origin of Shan-t'ou

From Mandarin 汕頭 /汕头 (Shàntóu), Wade–Giles romanization: Shan⁴-tʻou².

Questions about Shan-t'ou

What is Shan-t'ou the alternative form of?
Shan-t'ou is the alternative form of Shantou.

Words near Shan-t'ou in the dictionary

  1. shan
  2. Shan State
  3. Shan Van Vocht
  4. shan't
  5. Shan-hsi
  6. Shan-t'ou
  7. Shan-tung
  8. Shana
  9. shana tova
  10. shanachie
  11. shanachies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shan-t'ou (page history and authors); Shantou (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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