Shizuishan
See also: Shízuǐshān
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 石嘴山 (Shízuǐshān).
Pronunciation
- enPR: shûʹdzwāʹshänʹ
- Hyphenation: Shi‧zui‧shan
Proper noun
Shizuishan
- A prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.
- [1911 March, George Pereira, “A Journey Across the Ordos”, in The Geographical Journal[2], volume XXXVII, number 3, London: Royal Geographical Society, page 264:
- I again entered civilization at Shih-tsui-tzu (officially called Shih-tsui-shan), a wretched town of 700 or 800 houses in a barren sandy plain. Three or four miles further south, however, I entered a very fertile region, between the Yellow river and the rugged A-la-shan, watered by five canals, which are supplied with water from the Yellow river, and which distribute it through countless irrigation channels over the surrounding fields.]
- 1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
- In Shizuishan, Ningxia's northernmost city, there was only one mainly Yihewani mosque before 1949, later destroyed in 1966.
- 2016 September 28, “Explosion kills 18 in ‘illegal’ coal mine in northern China”, in AP News[4], archived from the original on 21 July 2022:
- Tuesday morning’s explosion occurred at a small coal mine when 20 miners were working underground in the city of Shizuishan in the northwestern region of Ningxia, the official Xinhua News Agency said. State broadcaster CCTV had said in the morning that the blast had killed 19 people, but later reported 18 deaths. […]
Calls to the Shizuishan city government Wednesday rang unanswered.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shizuishan.
Translations
prefecture-level city
References
- ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972), “Index”, in China's Changing Map[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 362: “Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Shihtsuishan (Shizuishan)”