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Shanwei

Shanwei proper noun: a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong, China.

Proper noun

Shanwei

  1. A prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong, China.
    • He left the junk at Shan-wei in the province of Canton, and from there took a boat which conveyed him to Macao.[1854, John Kesson, chapter XVI, in The Cross and the Dragon, or the Fortunes of Christianity in China: with notices of the Christian Missions and Missionaries, and some account of the Chinese secret...
    • He had reached the retirement age of fifty-five in 1957, after being first employed by the Government as a young man. Born in Kowloon about 1903, he was taken back to Shan Wei in eastern Kwangtung (Fig. 3.1) at age eight for his primary education comprising four or five years in a private school...[1975, Cornelius Osgood, “The Man Who Retired”, in The Chinese: A Study of a Hong Kong Community, volume 1, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 370
    Synonyms:
    Swabue

Synonyms of Shanwei

Forms of Shanwei

alternative formShan-wei

Origin of Shanwei

Borrowed from Mandarin 汕尾 (Shànwěi).

Questions about Shanwei

What does Shanwei mean?
Shanwei means a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong, China.
What part of speech is Shanwei?
Shanwei is a proper noun.

Words near Shanwei in the dictionary

  1. shantymen
  2. shantytown
  3. shantytowns
  4. Shantz
  5. Shantzes
  6. Shanwei
  7. Shanxi
  8. Shanyang
  9. shanyavskite
  10. Shanyin
  11. shanzhai

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