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Tz'u-shan

Tz'u-shan is the alternative form of Cishan.

Meaning of Cishan

Proper noun (1)

Cishan

  1. A Neolithic culture in northern China.
    • Major archaeological finds of the last three decades include the earliest known sites along the Yellow River valley. Some of these sites are classified as belonging to the Cishan culture, after the type site in Wu’an, Hebei Province, and others to the Peiligang culture, after their type site in...
    • But a few are comb-marked, and at certain Cishan sites, some cord-marked or painted ones have been found. The common vessels are bowls, round-bottomed or with three short legs; deep, wide-mouthed jars; pots with two tiny lugs; caldrons with three or four legs (ding); and, in settlements of the...1982, Wan-go Weng, Yang Boda, “Ceramics”, in The Palace Museum: Peking: Treasures of the Forbidden City, London: Orbis Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 81, column 1

Proper noun (2)

Cishan

  1. A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
    • Taiwan Red Cross members escort rescued residents who were trapped following Typhoon Morakot, to receive medical care in Cishan, Taiwan, 12 August 2009. Taiwan soldiers on 12 August found 70 more survivors from a village buried by a mudslide, bringing to 1,000 the number of people found alive in...2009 August 9, “Typhoon slams Taiwan, China, Japan”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2021
    Synonyms:
    Kizan

Origin of Tz'u-shan

From Mandarin 磁山 (Císhān) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzʻŭ²-shan¹.

Questions about Tz'u-shan

What is Tz'u-shan the alternative form of?
Tz'u-shan is the alternative form of Cishan.

Words near Tz'u-shan in the dictionary

  1. Tyzack
  2. TZ
  3. Tz'u-chou ware
  4. Tz'u-chou wares
  5. Tz'u-hsi
  6. Tz'u-shan
  7. Tz'utujil
  8. Tz'utujils
  9. tzaddi
  10. tzaddik
  11. tzaddikim

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tz'u-shan (page history and authors); Cishan (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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