Shimen
English
Alternative forms
- Shihmen; Seimon; Chomong
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 石門 (Shímén).
Pronunciation
- enPR: shûʹmŭnʹ[2]
- Hyphenation: Shi‧men
Proper noun
Shimen
- A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
- 2023 October 1, Wang Chao-yu, Li Hsien-feng, Wang Hong-kuo, James Lo, “More hornet attacks reported in New Taipei on Sunday”, in Focus Taiwan[3], archived from the original on 02 October 2023, Society[4]:
- Eight hikers, including foreign nationals, were stung by a hornet swarm in New Taipei's Shimen District while they were walking along the Qingshan Waterfall hiking path.
- An urban village in Shimen district, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Translations
district in northern Taiwan; urban village in northern Taiwan
References
- ^ Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈) (2015), “Transliteration Tables”, in Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan[1], Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 434: “Transliterations used in the text / Hanyu pinyin / Chinese characters or Japanese kanji […] Shihmen / Shimen / 石門”
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Shihmen”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1752, column 3: “Shihmen (shûʹmŭnʹ), Jap. [Japanese] Sekimon (both: sāʹkēmōn), […]”