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Shun-te

Shun-te is the alternative form of Shunde.

Meaning of Shunde

Proper noun

Shunde

  1. A district of Foshan, Guangdong, China.
    • Sifu was born in 1899 in the village of Lungsan in Shunte county of Kwangtung. She had an older brother and a younger brother.[1984, Andrea Sankar, “Spinster Sisterhoods: Jing Yih Sifu: Spinster-Domestic-Nun”, in Mary Sheridan, Janet W. Salaff, editors, Lives: Chinese Working Women, Bloomington: Indiana University Press...
    Synonyms:
    Shun Tak, Shuntak

Origin of Shun-te

From Mandarin 順德 /顺德 (Shùndé), Wade–Giles romanization: Shun⁴-tê².

Questions about Shun-te

What is Shun-te the alternative form of?
Shun-te is the alternative form of Shunde.

Words near Shun-te in the dictionary

  1. Shums
  2. Shumsk
  3. Shumway
  4. Shumways
  5. shun
  6. Shun-te
  7. Shunamite
  8. Shunamites
  9. shunamitism
  10. shunammite
  11. shunammites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shun-te (page history and authors); Shunde (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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