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Shihtsuishan

Shihtsuishan is the alternative form of Shizuishan.

Meaning of Shizuishan

Proper noun

Shizuishan

  1. A prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.
    • I again entered civilization at Shih-tsui-tzu (officially called Shih-tsui-shan), a wretched town of 700 or 800 houses in a barren sandy plain. Three or four miles further south, however, I entered a very fertile region, between the Yellow river and the rugged A-la-shan, watered by five canals...[1911 March, George Pereira, “A Journey Across the Ordos”, in The Geographical Journal, volume XXXVII, number 3, London: Royal Geographical Society, page 264

Origin of Shihtsuishan

From Mandarin 石嘴山 (Shízuǐshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Shih²-tsui³-shan¹.

Questions about Shihtsuishan

What is Shihtsuishan the alternative form of?
Shihtsuishan is the alternative form of Shizuishan.

Words near Shihtsuishan in the dictionary

  1. shihon-bashira
  2. shihpoo
  3. shihpoos
  4. Shihs
  5. Shihting
  6. Shihtsuishan
  7. Shihua
  8. shii
  9. shii tree
  10. shii trees
  11. Shiification

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shihtsuishan (page history and authors); Shizuishan (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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