Word.ws English Dictionary

Shan-tung

Shan-tung is the alternative form of Shandong.

Meaning of Shandong

Proper noun

Shandong

  1. A coastal province in eastern China. Capital: Jinan.
    • We couldn’t solve this problem by the force of one co-op alone, so we united co-ops. But the people were still discussing the best form of agricultural production.
      “Then Chairman Mao inspected agriculture in Shandong Province and issued the call for people’s communes, summed up in his slogan...1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, quoting Zhou Min-fu, “Agriculture: The Foundation”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99

Origin of Shan-tung

From Mandarin 山東 /山东 (Shāndōng), reinforced by Wade-Giles romanization: Shan¹-tung¹.

Questions about Shan-tung

What is Shan-tung the alternative form of?
Shan-tung is the alternative form of Shandong.

Words near Shan-tung in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Shan-tung (page history and authors); Shandong (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Shan-tung.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shan-tung. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.