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Shimen

Syllables: Shi·men

Shimen proper noun: a county of Changde, Hunan, China.

Proper noun

Shimen

  1. A county of Changde, Hunan, China.
  2. A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
    • Eight hikers, including foreign nationals, were stung by a hornet swarm in New Taipei's Shimen District while they were walking along the Qingshan Waterfall hiking path.2023 October 1, Wang Chao-yu, Li Hsien-feng, Wang Hong-kuo, James Lo, “More hornet attacks reported in New Taipei on Sunday”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2023, Society
  3. An urban village in Shimen district, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Forms of Shimen

alternative formShihmen
alternative formSeimon
alternative formChomong

Origin of Shimen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石門 /石门 (Shímén).

Questions about Shimen

What does Shimen mean?
Shimen means a county of Changde, Hunan, China.
What part of speech is Shimen?
Shimen is a proper noun.

Words near Shimen in the dictionary

  1. shimeji
  2. shimejis
  3. Shimek
  4. shimekomi
  5. Shimeks
  6. Shimen
  7. shimenawa
  8. Shimer
  9. Shimerian
  10. Shimerians
  11. shimewaza

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