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Shunde

Syllables: Shun·te

Shunde proper noun: a district of Foshan, Guangdong, China.

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...
    • Because it is less reliant on Hong Kong capital, Shunde's industrial product mix differs significantly from that of Dongguan. It is less involved with textiles, toys, and plastics destined for re-export through Hong Kong. Shunde is known throughout China for its high quality domestic appliances...1998, Graham E. Johnson, Yuen-fong Woon, “Social Values and Development Patterns in South China: The Case of the Pearl River Delta Region in the 1900s”, in Harold Coward, editor, Traditional and...
    Synonyms:
    Shun Tak, Shuntak

Synonyms of Shunde

Forms of Shunde

alternative formShun-te
alternative formShun-tê

Origin of Shunde

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 順德／顺德 (Shùndé).

Questions about Shunde

What does Shunde mean?
Shunde means a district of Foshan, Guangdong, China.
What part of speech is Shunde?
Shunde is a proper noun.

Words near Shunde in the dictionary

  1. shunamitism
  2. shunammite
  3. shunammites
  4. Shunammitism
  5. Shuncheng
  6. Shunde
  7. Shunem
  8. shunga
  9. shungite
  10. shungites
  11. shungitic

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