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Shum Chun

Shum Chun is the alternative form of Shenzhen.

Meaning of Shenzhen

Proper noun

Shenzhen

  1. A major subprovincial city of Guangdong, in southeastern China.
    • Encyclopædia Britannica
      In 1979 Shenzhen was a small border city of some 30,000 inhabitants that served as a customs stop into mainland China from Hong Kong.
    Synonyms:
    Shumchun, Shum-chun, Shamchun, Sham Chun

Origin of Shum Chun

Borrowed from Cantonese 深圳 (sam1 zan3).

Questions about Shum Chun

What is Shum Chun the alternative form of?
Shum Chun is the alternative form of Shenzhen.

Words near Shum Chun in the dictionary

  1. shulwar
  2. shulwars
  3. shulwaur
  4. shulwaurs
  5. Shum
  6. Shum Chun
  7. shumac
  8. shumaced
  9. shumacing
  10. shumack
  11. shumacked

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Shum Chun (page history and authors); Shenzhen (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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