Shizuishan
Syllables: Shi·zui·shan
Shizuishan proper noun: a prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.
Proper noun
Shizuishan
- 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
- In Shizuishan, Ningxia's northernmost city, there was only one mainly Yihewani mosque before 1949, later destroyed in 1966.1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162
Forms of Shizuishan
| alternative form | Shihtsuishan |
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Origin of Shizuishan
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 石嘴山 (Shízuǐshān).
Questions about Shizuishan
- What does Shizuishan mean?
- Shizuishan means a prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.
- What part of speech is Shizuishan?
- Shizuishan is a proper noun.
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