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Xantung

Xantung is the alternative form of Shandong.

Meaning of Shandong

Proper noun

Shandong

  1. A coastal province in eastern China. Capital: Jinan.
    • We couldn’t solve this problem by the force of one co-op alone, so we united co-ops. But the people were still discussing the best form of agricultural production.
      “Then Chairman Mao inspected agriculture in Shandong Province and issued the call for people’s communes, summed up in his slogan...1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, quoting Zhou Min-fu, “Agriculture: The Foundation”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99

Origin of Xantung

From the Jesuit romanization of Chinese 山東／山东 (Shāndōng).

Questions about Xantung

What is Xantung the alternative form of?
Xantung is the alternative form of Shandong.

Words near Xantung in the dictionary

  1. Xantippe
  2. Xantippes
  3. xantocillin
  4. xantophore
  5. xantopurpurin
  6. Xantung
  7. Xantus's murrelet
  8. Xantus's murrelets
  9. xantusid
  10. xantusids
  11. xantusiid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Xantung (page history and authors); Shandong (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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