Wushan

See also: Wu-shan

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wo͞oʹshänʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Wu‧shan

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 巫山 (Wūshān).

Proper noun

Wushan

  1. A county of Chongqing, China.
    • 1905 June 17, E. H. Wilson, “LEAVES FROM MY CHINESE NOTE-BOOK”, in The Gardeners' Chronicle‎[2], number 964, page 384:
      On the cliffs opposite Kui Spiræa Thunbergii occurs. It is quite common in the Wushan gorge, but I did not find it nearer Ichang than here.
    • 1976 January 26 [1976 January 22], “Szechwan County Navigation”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 17, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page J 4:
      The "Chengkuang" No 7 is a short-distance passenger-cargo ship built by staff members and workers of the navigation departments of Wushan County, Szechwan. The ship sails in the noted Wuhsia Gorge of the Yangtze River from Wushan County, Szechwan, in the west to Wanliu commune in Patung County, Hupeh, in the east--a total distance of 45 kms.
    • 1995, Xinzhi Wu, Frank E. Poirier, “Homo erectus”, in Human Evolution in China: A Metric Description of Fossils and a Review of the Sites‎[3], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 108:
      According to Gu and Fang (1991a), two human fossils were unearthed from this site situated in Wushan County in the eastern part of Sichuan Province in central China.
    • 2008 August 2, Andrew Torchia, “Corrupt China official betrayed by leaky toilet”, in Andrew Roche, editor, Reuters‎[4], archived from the original on 05 August 2022, Technology, Media and Telecommunications‎[5]:
      Yan Dabin, a former director of transport for Wushan County near the southwestern city of Chongqing, was sentenced on Friday for taking bribes totaling 22.3 million yuan ($3.3 million) from road building companies, Xinhua said.
  2. A town in Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.
  3. A village in Wushan, Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.
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Etymology 2

From Mandarin 巫山 (Wūshān).

Proper noun

Wushan

  1. A county of Tianshui, Gansu, China.
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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wushan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2109, column 1

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